SKOWHEGAN (AP) — Police are investigating the theft of about $1,000 in prescription medications from a Skowhegan homeless shelter.

Police Chief Ted Blais said the theft from a locked cabinet at the Trinity Men’s Shelter was reported last weekend.

Blais told the Morning Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1oGLf0Z ) that men staying at the shelter are not allowed to keep drugs on their person, so any prescribed medication is kept in the cabinet. About 30 men staying at the shelter store medication in the cabinet.

Richard Berry, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Free Church, said the locked cabinet was in a locked office inside the locked church building.

The entire cabinet was stolen and later found pried open in a nearby field.

Blais said the investigation is ongoing and he has a suspect.