Getaway Driver: Woman Gets 25 Years For Molino Pharmacy Robbery

July 29, 2011

The getaway driver in the September 2010 armed robbery of a Molino pharmacy has been sentenced to prison.

Krystal Lynn Collins, 24, was sentenced by Judge Terry Terrell to a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years state prison for the armed robbery of Scott’s Pharmacy. Collins was convicted in May 2011 by an Escambia County jury of robbery with a firearm, three counts of trafficking in illegal drugs, and three counts of possession of controlled substances.

Collins drove the getaway car for Joseph Daniel Flowers during the holdup. Flowers remains in the Escambia County Jail awaiting trail after the results of a competency evaluation is completed.

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

About 1:15 the afternoon of September 20, 2010, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department said 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 getaway car with two stickers as noted by a witness. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

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Comments

11 Responses to “Getaway Driver: Woman Gets 25 Years For Molino Pharmacy Robbery”

  1. Just sayin' on August 2nd, 2011 4:40 am

    The sad thing is that she has small children. The punishment is even worse for them. Imagine growing up and having to tell your friends that your mother is in prison for something so stupid.

  2. Kay on August 1st, 2011 12:50 pm

    I’m glad she will be going away. It was a sad day when her partner
    walked in on one of our few local businesses here in Molino and
    stuck a gun in someones face and said, ” they wouldn’t mind killing
    them “…..FOR DRUGS…..

    It is certainly time to get rough on drugs…..
    WHAT A WASTE of our young people in this area, and it is scary to
    know that there are so many. many more drug addicts right out there
    in our small town. This is just the start of cleaning out
    this town.

    If you even THINK that someone you love is on drugs of any kind,
    I urge you to grab them, shake them, get their attention and do
    what ever it takes to get them to clean up.

  3. Bbab on July 31st, 2011 9:36 pm

    Should have had the same judge as Tammy Marie Sheffield

  4. nudo on July 31st, 2011 10:32 am

    What did we get a new judge? Finally punishment instead of bargining. Maybe someone figured out punishment works!

  5. David Huie Green on July 30th, 2011 9:23 am

    so go to Norway to commit your crimes

  6. Observer on July 30th, 2011 7:57 am

    24 years in prison when the fellow in Sweden who killed 92 people is looking at a whole 21 years as his maximum sentence. Thought provoking is it not?

  7. bullwinkle on July 29th, 2011 4:40 pm

    REF YOU HIT IT ON THE NAIL! He had them on the wrong end.

  8. REF on July 29th, 2011 4:01 pm

    Drugs had him confused instead of wearing his underwear on his bottom he messed up an put em on his head….. Bad decisions an poor judgement..

  9. Jim W on July 29th, 2011 2:29 pm

    As I said when I read this the first time the story ran when they were caught. Another young life wasted on drugs. I hope she will clean up and when she gets out become a productive citizen. Drugs are an infection on our cimmunities and in the lives of our loved ones. I do not know what the magic bullet would to stop it all but I do know this. We have to try and enfore the laws. Just another sad refelection on how American is erroding away.

  10. mary on July 29th, 2011 6:12 am

    GOOD!!!

  11. bullwinkle on July 29th, 2011 2:40 am

    The underwear bandits are through dealin…

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