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Three More Pharmacies Burglarized
April 5, 2016
Three 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.
Images courtesy WEAR 3 for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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15 Responses to “Three More Pharmacies Burglarized”
To Kim of Kim’s Family Pharmacy
You explained yourself which I give props to you. However, you owe these people NO EXPLANATION! It is because of these jerks, that chronically I’ll people, YES, like myself, are treated like common criminals. I suppose eventually, they’ll blow themselves up or fry their brains? Maybe THEN we can sleep at night? May you recover from this fiasco soon.
A good dog would do the trick. Its been about 40 years ago when Cantonment Pharmacy was located on 29 north of the red light they had a wonderful Doberman named Trudy. I know this because I lived in the apartment that is in the back of the building. Trudy was there all the time but stayed every night and changed the minds of a few that thought they wanted break in. Dogs are amazing creatures. I believe if these THUGS heard a dog in the pharmacy they would think twice before entering. The dog doesn’t even have to come from behind the counter. Just my two cents.
@bewildered—that idea is really, really naive and stupid. As long as theres a market for it, there will be a retailer. And as long as narcotic pain meds make people feel better about their lives, however masked it is, they will continue to use.
Furthermore, I know several people who consume narcotic pain meds who are not prescribed them, and every commenter here would be amazed at their occupation and identity. None have been convicted of a crime. None you would suspect. All members of local churches, all have lives many would envy. So to say, “we got these narcotics on our streets” is naive. Many narcotic pain med users are not criminals. That’s why they choose legal drugs instead of heroin, cocaine, etc. Not to say they don’t have a problem but dont lump them together with what you picture a junkie to be. They are not the same. They have jobs, in many instances, better jobs than most who post here. You probably know people who take prescription drugs and don’t know it because you think you’re smarter than you really are.
We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t keep thieves out of our pharmacies?
Cameras in proper position for photo ID (not top of heads) and lots of cool booby traps! Yup, the old junk yard dogs and such may help too. Time to service the wood-chipper.
To adopt drug laws like Central America, South America and most Asian countries have would do the trick. Make it mandatory for drug addicts to go into rehab and get rid of drug dealers by handing out stiff punishment – including execution. Our justice system views the rights of scumbags more important than the lives they destroy by pushing narcotics.
How were they able to get under the door at Kim’s pharmacy? Shouldn’t it be sealed and secured? I understand they didn’t get any real big narcotics, but they still got some form of narcotics. If these people are the same from Scotts pharmacy it seems like they are not going for the big narcotics, but what are they doing with them? I hope and pray they are not selling these to teens or anyone. We definitely don’t need drug overdose cases to start popping up everyday, we already have murder rates rising. What’s next in NorthEscambiaville?
Thanks Kim Cadenhead for taking extra precautions and spending more money to insur that these thieves don’t take the drugs from your pharmacy so easily. Now if more will follow suit and the word gets around to this element of our society maybe these headlines will be less frequent.
I have always wondered why security cameras are mounted up high, so they only get a picture of the tops of the burglars’ heads. Wouldn’t it make sense to put at least one at the or below eye level to get their faces? They may destroy the camera, but their picture is captured by then because they looked directly at it. Maybe I’m just ignorant, but it does make me wonder.
Clarification: Kim’s Family Pharmacy has state of the art alarm and camera systems as well as two gun safes bolted to the floor. That is more security than any chain pharmacy that I have worked in and that I am aware of. These criminals were in and out in less than two minutes. Due to all of the security measures that we have in place, they got no actual “narcotics” which would include opiate pain medications. They were, however, able to access the medications intended for children with ADD. Security measures have now been implemented to prevent this in the future. Chain pharmacies are robbed every day, unfortunately.
Third burglary of an Escambia County pharmacy in 2 weeks.
More drugs stolen and likely will be on OUR streets.
Drugs are becoming more easily available to users and kids with first time use.
Robberies, home invasions, theft, property destruction seem to be ramping up without much intervention.
Murders are now very sadly an regular part of our news reports in Escambia Co and Pensacola.
Speaking for MY Family and friends — none on drugs or thugs — we agree we all No Longer Feel Safe on our roadways or in the places where we go to shop or eat or visit and because of that have our Concealed Carry Permits and do carry. And at home there is something nearby if needed.
What will it take to get Real Law and Order and Public Confidence restored in Escambia County? We Deserve to Feel Safe.
An attack dog would make these type burglaries very unpopular, very quickly.
That hybridized politician they call a protus, he would just release them from prison, so it does not do much good to prosecute/incarcerate.
Why are these narcotics and other type drugs not locked in a safe,at least at night?
Maybe since the alarms don’t seem to work at independent pharmacies, the owners should take a lesson from junk yards and invest in some real mean dogs.
Looks like the same guys who hit Scotts Pharmacy. Have they caught those guys yet?