BAR HARBOR, Maine — Local police are investigating the robbery of a local pharmacy on Thursday night.
The robbery was reported around 6:45 p.m. at the Rite Aid pharmacy on Cottage Street. Initial reports indicated that a man made threatening statements to employees, but did not show a weapon before making off with an unspecified amount of pills. Whether he may have had a weapon is unknown.
According to a police summary of the incident, the suspect was wearing black sweatpants, a long-sleeve white or beige shirt, a ski mask and a black mask covering his eyes when he demanded oxycodone.
“Don’t make me get violent,” the man allegedly wrote in a note he gave a clerk, police said.
Lt. James Pinkham of the Bar Harbor Police Department said Friday that police are not disclosing how many pills the suspect may have taken from the pharmacy.
The suspect, described as around 5 feet, 10 inches tall with medium build, ran out the back door of the pharmacy with the pills toward a public parking lot, according to police. Police do not know where he went after running out of the store, Pinkham said.
Police from neighboring agencies set up roadblocks at the head of Mount Desert Island and at the intersection of routes 102 and 233 near Somesville but the suspect was not apprehended.
The pharmacy robbery is believed to be the first in recent memory on MDI. Pinkham, who has been with the local police department for 34 years, said there has not been another pharmacy robbery on MDI “as far back as I can remember.”
Pinkham said the incident remains under investigation.
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Pot is much more of a problem as our medical community has created a pain pill epidemic.
And the beat goes on……………………..
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Here is a stunner a Rite Aid gets robbed.
To keep the disruption to a minimum for the regular customers they need to add a “robbery only” window.
Maybe Bar Harbor should open a Methadone clinic. It should be in a very convenient location, maybe close to the town wharf, so people can walk to it. There should be no need to discriminate, everyone should have access. You see if the town officials in Bar Harbor realize that once they open a methadone clinic crime will go down it’s a no brainahhhh.
Hmmmm… If the drug stores could only place a remotely activated “look-a-like” pill, that would either track or be set off remotely to start a fire, then the police might be able to quickly find these clowns…
Pills were STOLEN from pharmacy. The pharmacy was robbed.
sooner or later they will run out of Rite aids to rob
why is it Rite Aid that gets mostly robbed. it sounds like a inside job. information is being passed out from someone on how to rob rite aid and get away with it . might find the answer on you tube maybe
In this day and age why can’t every pharmacy have tiny GPS devices that would be part of a bottle cap, bag, pill or something so they can be easily tracked. Also the security cameras should be upgraded….just a couple thoughts.
Opiate addiction is a national eppidemic concentrated in local rural communities by pharmasudical outreach from both sides of jusdice. Medical marijauana can help stabalize the need to treat for the withdrawl from opiates. Offenders suffer tremendously from their withdrawal. The pill subboxone with properly regulated access will treat the medical condition of opiate addiction. However, until every american individual has access to proper medical care, there is no present avenue to effectively address the stabalization of the national and public eppidemic of opiate addiction.
Compare the addiction and concquenses of tabbaco and the effectiveness of the Maine Tabbaco Help Line to avail counsling and nictine supplment support with the need to get the opiate addict saciaciated adaquately with medical marijauna.