DUNCAN, Okla_Several bottles
of Lortabs, also known as hydrocodone, are missing from a Duncan pharmacy after it was robbed Thursday
morning. Police were called to the Star Discount Pharmacy, on Highway 81 in the
Chisholm Trail Mall, after employees called 911.workers told police the robber
came in around 10 a.m., shortly after the store opened and forced them to the
ground before demanding the drugs.
There have been
no arrests but fortunately no one was hurt during the robbery, the man took
only the drugs and made no attempt to take anything else including money. Police
say prescription pills are highly sought after and the driving force behind
pharmacy robberies.
It was anything
but a usual day at work for Duncan
hair stylist David Grey.
"Four cop
cars lit the place up, five million people wanted to know what was going on the
rumor mill hit."
The event
filled day started after something caught his attention.
"As I was
doing a clients hair, I looked towards the front window and I saw a guy
fumbling in his jacket and I saw him flip up his hoodie and he took off
running."
Grey went
outside his salon but couldn't see the man, then seconds later saw him run past
his shop again.
"At first
I thought he was running in the rain or trying to get somewhere fast and then I
knew he had done something wrong, I knew that he had robbed something or taken,
he was running and going fast like he was trying to get away."
Grey said after
police arrived he learned a store in the same complex had been robbed and that
money wasn't the target.
"The
pharmacist said he had money and the guy didn't want it, he wanted drugs
so."
He said sadly
the motivation came as no surprise to him or even the police.
"Everyone
around here has guns and so I thought I should get a gun and the cop said not
unless you're carrying a bucket of Lortabs, if you don't have tabs you don't
need a gun here."
The robber ran
away with several bottles of the drug that was stuffed into a black backpack. Police
say the man never showed a weapon but kept a hand in his hoodie pocket.
