Prescription thieves strike again
A woman leaving The Medicine Shoppe, 400 Jefferson Ave., Washington, was robbed of two medications Tuesday morning, the third such incident at that location in less than a week.
Similar strong-arm robberies occurred last Wednesday and Thursday afternoons in which prescriptions were stolen from people outside the pharmacy by two men police believe are working together.
In the latest robbery, a woman was walking through the parking lot with her children about 10:50 a.m. when a white man in his 50s with dirty blond hair, wearing a blue shirt, glasses, a white bandana and work boots, emerged from a car and smiled at the woman as he walked by her. Once she was past him, the man grabbed two prescriptions from her hands. The woman told police the man then jumped into the passenger seat of the vehicle, which fled quickly, almost hitting her 2-year-old daughter.
The driver was described as a white man with glasses and a white bandana over his face.
About 2:30 p.m. Thursday, a man, described as white, about 6 feet tall, with shoulder-length dark hair and wearing a bandana and multiple layers of clothing, grabbed three envelopes of medication and pushed a female delivery driver away before jumping into a car that pulled up along Jefferson.
The car then turned up Second Street and apparently looped around the building, turning to go south on Jefferson. Police believe the car in Thursday’s robbery was a dark gray, 2016 Subaru Legacy.
Last Wednesday, an Ohio woman told police she was getting into her car around 1:30 p.m. after leaving the pharmacy, where she just filled a prescription, when a man grabbed her purse. She struggled with him but he knocked her to the ground, police said. She declined treatment for a knee injury.
The robber in that incident is an older white man with gray hair. He may have a gap in his front teeth. He also wore a yellow ball cap that fell off in the struggle with the woman. Police took it as evidence. No weapon was seen in any of the robberies.
Anyone with information on the robberies is asked to call 911 or Washington police at 724-223-4226.