ROCKINGHAM — A Randolph County man is accused of stealing pills and batteries from a local pharmacy twice in the month of June.

According to a warrant issued Aug. 5, 46-year-old Bernie Garrette Campbell Jr., of Asheboro walked into the Rockingham Walgreens on June 20 last year and stole three 45-count packs of Zyrtec 24-hour 10 milligram tablets, three 70-count packs of the same pills and four packs of Energizer Ultimate lithium AAA batteries.

The total value of the stolen items is shown as $250.90.

Campbell returned to the same store June 20 and walked out with four packs of Claritin Allergy 24-hour tablets worth $159.96, according to a second warrant.

He was arrested Monday and charged with two counts of misdemeanor larceny. He was jailed and released on a $5,000 surety appearance bond. He is scheduled to appear in Richmond County District Court on Sept. 4.

Online court records show Campbell is also facing two counts each of shoplifting by concealment of goods and misdemeanor larceny in Montgomery County.

Documents included in his file also indicate he had a trial date scheduled for Wednesday on a felony charge of trafficking opium or heroin. According to media reports, those charges stem from a June meth lab bust in Randolph County.

Campbell has a list of of theft and fraud convictions dating back nearly 20 years, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction.

Records show Campbell spent nearly six months behind bars on felony counts of credit card theft, financial card fraud, breaking and entering and larceny following a 1998 conviction. His next prison stay, on felony forgery charges, started in late 1999 and lasted seven months.

He served nearly four months on a misdemeanor larceny conviction in 2003 and two months the following year on several larceny and breaking and entering charges.

Campbell later served a nine-month sentence, starting in late 2007, after being convicted on a felony count of possession of stolen goods.

Nearly all of Campbell’s convictions — including his first, on a paraphernalia charge in 1991 — were in Randolph County. However, his latest conviction, in 2011, resulted in a three-month sentence on a misdemeanor larceny charge in Guilford County.

Reach reporter William R. Toler at 910-817-2675 and follow him on Twitter @William_r_Toler.

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By William R. Toler

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