A Salem woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than three years in prison for committing identity theft to obtain nearly $40,000 worth of prescription drugs.
Sarah Flom, 25, pleaded guilty in September 2011 to two counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of stealing more than $10,000 in services. Although her sentencing originally was scheduled in October 2011, Flom was not sentenced until Tuesday because of legal delays and a failure to appear for a scheduled sentencing in February.
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Flom was accused of using the identities of three women, two of whom her defense attorney Fredrick Burt identified as her sisters, to obtain the narcotic prescription drug Oxycontin from Salem Hospital from November 2010 to June 2011.
Flom was ordered to pay $38,800 in restitution to Salem Hospital and emergency physicians.
At her sentencing, Flom told Judge Audrey Broyles that she had been seriously ill at the time of the thefts and had not known that she had committed a crime.
Broyles rebuked her, saying Flom repeatedly stalled proceedings and failed to complete court-ordered drug treatment.
