Crime & Safety
West Hartford Doctor Charged with Stealing Medication from UConn Health Center
The 71-year-old doctor has been with UConn for 40 years.

West Hartford, CT — West Hartford resident Dr. Micha Abeles, 71, has been charged with stealing medication from the UConn Health Center in Farmington on multiple occasions, according to the Hartford Courant.
The Courant reports Abeles, who has been at UConn for 40 years, is accused of taking items from a locked medication room on days he wasn’t seeing patients.
Abeles told police that he had taken the items because he was running low at his private practice and needed the drugs for a patient and also for a family member who has arthritis but insisted that he replenished what he took, according to the Courant.
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