A Winnipeg pharmacist has been convicted of fraud and reprimanded by his profession's regulatory body after years of taking drugs from his pharmacy to feed his own addiction.

Manitoba's College of Pharmacists gave Scott Putz an 18-month suspension and ordered him to pay a $15,000 fine, plus $10,000 for costs of the investigation, for stealing stimulants for his own consumption. 

Details of the case were revealed in a spring edition of the regulator's newsletter.  

The regulator's decision came in …