One of three people charged in connection with the theft of large quantities of prescription medication from a Glasgow pharmaceutical distributor has pleaded guilty.

Sarah D’Auria, 27, entered a guilty plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green to charges of conspiring to commit theft of medical products and conspiring to distribute controlled substances.

D’Auria was one of three California residents who were indicted by a federal grand jury in November after investigators uncovered the theft of medications that would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars on the street.

According to court records, D’Auria admitted involvement in the conspiracy to steal and distribute bottles of Promethazine HCL and codeine that were being shipped to Glasgow pharmaceutical distribution company Richie Pharmacal between Oct. 13-18.

Richie Pharmacal’s website says it is an authorized distributor for more than 95 generic manufacturers of FDA-approved drugs, delivering products to independent pharmacies, hospitals, clinics, doctor’s offices and re-packagers.

D’Auria was arrested Oct. 17 in Utah with co-defendant Isaac Newman by police who found evidence in their vehicle tying them to the theft of 288 bottles of promethazine with codeine three days earlier from Richie Pharmacal.

The Glasgow Police Department initially responded to a reported theft at the company, where officials informed police that a promethazine shipment sent from an Ohio-based distributor had not arrived.

Police learned that the delivery driver carrying the drugs was met by a black car occupied by a man who said the loading dock was down and that the shipment needed to be loaded onto the bed of a white pickup truck parked near the Richie lot with the company logo on it.

“This logo was later determined to be either a printed logo or magnetic placard placed on the vehicle door,” the federal affidavit said, adding that Richie Pharmacal officials confirmed that it did not have any work vehicle matching the description of the white pickup truck provided by the delivery driver, who provided police with a copy of the delivery receipt.

Police checking traffic camera systems found the white pickup truck and learned that it had been rented by D’Auria and picked up in Nashville on Oct. 14, and that the black car had been rented that same day by a third co-defendant, Robert Newman, and also picked up in Nashville.

Investigators used camera systems to track the vehicles to Minnesota and further investigation led police to believe the vehicles were on their way to California, court records show.

When D’Auria and Isaac Newman were stopped in Utah, police there saw 14 large cardboard boxes in the back seat with labels stating that they contained promethazine.

A more thorough search found the boxes to contain 184, 16-ounce bottles of promethazine with codeine, with the drugs inside having a total street value of around $644,000, the affidavit said.

Police also recovered a backpack from the truck that contained between $30,000 and $40,000 in cash, all in $20 bills, records show.

While the labels on the boxes described the drugs they contained, nothing on the boxes indicated the name of the shipping company or their intended destination, and labels containing that information appear to have been torn from the boxes.

“It is (our) belief that these labels were removed to keep anyone who might see the boxes from linking them as evidence of the theft from Richie Pharmacal,” the affidavit stated.

Robert Newman was found Oct. 18 by police in Colorado and taken into custody and investigators there reportedly found numerous pharmacy bottles of hydrocodone in his vehicle, according to court records.

Robert and Isaac Newman have entered not guilty pleas to federal criminal charges.

D’Auria will be sentenced June 9.