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Another Pharmacy Break-in Linked To Pharmacy Burglary Spree
April 6, 2016
Authorities in Atmore are linking another pharmacy burglary to a string of break-ins at smaller independent pharmacies in Escambia County, FL, and in two other Alabama cities.
According to information released Tuesday by the Atmore Police Department, their agency received a an alarm at the Buy-Rite Pharmacy on Medical Park Drive at 4:28 a.m. Monday. Patrol officers arrived four minutes later to find that the front door and security bars had been pried open.
Police said the surveillance video showed what appeared to be two males in hooded jackets, masks and gloves entered the pharmacy, placed several placed several controlled substance items in a trash bag and exited the store in less than a minute.
Atmore Police said the burglars’ description and method of operation closely matches that of other recent burglaries in Robertsdale, AL, Wetumpka, AL, and Escambia County, FL, as well as a burglary at same Atmore pharmacy in November 2014.
As we previously reported, three other pharmacies were burglarized early Monday morning just hours apart, and the crimes appear to be related.
Kim’s Family Pharmacy in the 700 block of South Highway 29 in Cantonment was the first to be hit about 1:25 a.m., according to owner Kim Cadenhead. The thieves got in through the bottom of the front door and stole narcotics.
Burglars forced their way into the Jackson Pace Pharmacy on Nine Mile Road about 2:30 a.m., according to owner Steve Jackson, clearing shelves and dumping the drugs into trashcans for their getaway.
Then the Lee Drug Drug in Robertsdale, AL, was hit at 3:30 a.m. when two people wearing gloves, masks and long sleeves forced their way in, taking a large amount of pills and narcotics in trash cans. The Robertsdale Police Department confirmed that photos from the Escambia County burglaries showed the same suspects as those in Robertsdale.
The burglaries came about three weeks after similar burglaries in Ensley and Jay, and few months after a similar pharmacy burglary in Molino.
Anyone with information on any of the burglaries is asked to call their local law enforcement agency.
Pictured: A Monday morning burglary at the Buy-Rite Pharmacy in Atmore. Images for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Another Pharmacy Break-in Linked To Pharmacy Burglary Spree”
Charlie, most pharmacies do have a safe. There are so many controlled drugs that it isn’t feasible to secure all of them every night. Valium, Adderal, Xanax, Hydrocodone, such drugs are kept on the shelves. These guys are going for quantity and taking drugs that are marketable.
I’m just glad they are doing this at night so that nobody is in danger.
I hope that they are caught in the act and eliminated so that there will be no trial or money wasted to keep them in prison!!
In my previous comment, I was talking about the usually stolen narcotic ones. You would need a really huge safe to store all drugs in, from a well stocked pharmacy. Lock up at least the narcotic ones. It should be mandatory.
Why do these pharmacies not have a storage safe as common practice, as jewelry stores do. Jewelry stores manage to put away an awful lot of valuables in a very short time at closing, because they use trays, so why can’t these drug stores do the same. Just use indexed removable trays for each kind of drug on store shelves, & tray racks in a large enough safe to hold them. The trays can be easily taken off the shelves & put in a safe. Too simple? Even during daylight/open hours, only a required amount of narcotic drugs that is on average called for, should be on the shelves & not in a safe. Most daylight robberies are done as quickly as possible, with a thief not wanting to wait for a safe to be opened.
It doesn’t take a pit bull to do the trick robin hood, it could be a mixed breed, just train them to wait until they come behind the counter before they attack.
these guys are good their M O sounds like a military operation to do it this fast they must have a good understanding of the pharmacy sooner or later they will get caught or killed
Oh come on Mick, Their family members will tell you that they are Good, Loving kids who do not hurt people, etc., etc.
If I was a pharmacist I would get me a pit bull and put them in the store SO when they did enter they would not leave without having to go to hospital and then they would get caught once police were called.
…00 buck shot might slow them down..
No outside cameras or external video footage? These guys aren’t walking to the pharmacies.
Catch this vermin and put them in prison 1 year behind bars for every pill they stole…