Paducah Teen Charged with Drug Theft

Police have charged a Paducah teen with trying to sell prescription medicine on his social media page.



According to Paducah Police, detectives got a tip that 19-year-old Mark Stigger, of Paducah had posted a picture of a bottle of Promethazine, a prescription medication, on his social media page and was selling it for $60.



Detectives said they spoke with an employee at the prescribing pharmacy, who told them the medicine had been delivered to a relative of Stigger’s. On Jan. 21 the relative told police she noticed the medicine missing after Stigger had visited her.



Police arrested Stigger Wednesday morning and charged him with trafficking in a legend drug. He was booked into the McCracken County Regional Jail.