Getaway Driver: Woman Found Guilty In Molino Pharmacy Robbery

May 26, 2011

A Cantonment woman was found guilty Wednesday on multiple charges related to the September 2010 armed robbery of  Scott’s Pharmacy in Molino.

It took an Escambia County jury less than two hours to return the verdict about 7:00 Wednesday evening against 24-year old Krystal Lynn Collins. She was found guilty of armed robbery with a firearm and a half dozen felony drug charges. She will be sentenced July 26.

According to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, Collins drove the getaway car for Joseph Daniel Flowers during the holdup. Flowers remains in the Escambia County Jail awaiting a July trial.

For a photo gallery from the robbery scene and the suspect’s home, click here.

About 1:15 the afternoon of September 20, 2010, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department believes Flowers robbed the pharmacy at Highway 29 and Molino Road at gunpoint while wearing boxer shorts on his head.

The bandit was described by witnesses as a white male in a navy blue bathrobe, blue jeans, black house slippers, yellow kitchen-type gloves, and with boxer shorts on his head. He entered the store and announced that he was robbing the business. Employees said he was armed with a revolver that was wrapped in a plastic bag and pointed at a store employee as he demanded prescription narcotics. Flowers threatened to kill witnesses if the police responded, the report states.

Flowers fled the store with a large quantity of narcotics worth several thousand dollars in two plastic bags, according to the ECSO report.

A witness saw Flowers get into a silver, mid-size vehicle parked behind the pharmacy after the robbery. He was unable to get the tag number from the car, but he did note two stickers, one red and one white, on the on the vehicle.

Scott’s Pharmacy personnel told deputies that they believed Flowers, a pharmacy customer, was the robbery suspect, based upon recognizing his voice and a unique gait due to a back injury. Deputies found a silver Honda Civic at Flowers’ residence in the 400 block of Molino Road that matched the description given by the witness.

Collins was present at the home on Molino Road, according to the Sheriff’s Office. She told deputies that she had driven Flowers to a Dollar General Store near the pharmacy prior to 11:00 that morning and she had not gone anywhere else. Surveillance video from the Dollar General placed Collins in the store between 1:06 and 1:08 p.m. — just prior to the pharmacy robbery.

She purchased a bottle of Coca-Cola and a Mountain Dew at the Dollar General, according to deputies. Flowers dropped the red cap from a bottle of Coca-Cola inside the pharmacy during the robbery, deputies said. A Coca-Cola bottle without a cap was discovered in the vehicle at Flowers’ residence.

Inside the home, deputies recovered a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver matching the description of the one given by store employees, according to the report.

Pictured top: Krystal Lynn Collins’ mugshot from the Escambia County Jail. Pictured middle inset: Collins (then with blond hair) was briefly taken into custody after the robbery before being released. Pictured bottom inset: The alleged getaway car with two stickers as noted by a witness. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

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Comments

7 Responses to “Getaway Driver: Woman Found Guilty In Molino Pharmacy Robbery”

  1. 429SCJ on May 27th, 2011 12:21 pm

    Absolutely!ME, I stand corrected.

  2. me on May 26th, 2011 5:33 pm

    not Thelmas and louise….they were in it for the fun, this is DUMB and DUMBER!

  3. hawghead on May 26th, 2011 1:08 pm

    Meth is as Meth does………….

  4. Molino Man on May 26th, 2011 8:45 am

    Our jails are becoming overcrowed with trash like this. I hope the judge levels a good sentence but make her pay for what she did & never let her forget it.

  5. jcellop on May 26th, 2011 8:42 am

    wonder (at the time) if she had a clue that just being party to a robbery using a firearm was a pretty serious offense..bet she knows now…dumb, dumd, DUMD!

  6. justme on May 26th, 2011 7:16 am

    Robbing your neighbors and friends who own and work at the pharmacy…shame on you and anyone else who does anything like this

  7. 429SCJ on May 26th, 2011 6:11 am

    Thelma and Louiese on the ville.

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