UNBELIEVABLE. THAT’S HOW JUDGE ROBERT CUPP REACTED WHEN HE DISCOVERED A WOMAN WHO PLED GUILTY TO STEALING NEARLY 300-THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM HER EMPLOYER WAS PAID APPROXIMATELY 7-THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR HER UNUSED SICK, PERSONAL, AND VACATION TIME. 52 YEAR OLD DEBRA COX OF JOHNSON CITY ADMITTED TO TAKING 60-THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE WHERE SHE CHECKED PATIENTS OUT AS THEY LEFT. SHE POCKETED OVER 269-THOUSAND DOLLARS BETWEEN OCTOBER 2005 AND OCTOBER 2007 WHEN SHE WORKED AT WATAUGA ORTHOPAEDICS. WHEN COX WENT ON VACATION, THE DOCTORS TOOK A CLOSER LOOK AND FOUND SOME DISCREPANCIES AND A SECOND SET OF BOOKS COX WAS KEEPING THAT DOCUMENTED THE MONEY SHE TOOK. JUDGE CUPP HAS DELAYED HIS FINAL DISPOSITION OF THE CASE UNTIL FRIDAY.