Myrtle Beach SC March 4 2008
While area investigators search for suspects in two recent pharmacy robberies, they remain uncertain whether the crimes were committed by the same person.
A man with a knife kidnapped two CVS Pharmacy employees and robbed the store shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday, Myrtle Beach police said.
About a week earlier, a man robbed a pharmacy in Murrells Inlet.
"They do look similar, but are we 100 percent sure it's the same person? No," said Myrtle Beach police spokesman Capt. David Knipes.
The robber in Myrtle Beach walked into the store at 512 S. Kings Highway about 6:50 p.m. and made a store employee and a pharmacy worker go to the back of the store while he went through the pharmacy, said Capt. David Knipes.
The man asked the employees for Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, before going behind the pharmacy counter, taking two 100-pill bottles of generic Tylenol and fleeing out the store's rear fire escape door, a police report said.
On Feb. 18 in Murrells Inlet, an armed man demanded prescription drugs during the robbery of a CVS, the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office said.
Georgetown County and Myrtle Beach police are working together because the events are similar.
CVS security officials have said the man in the Murrells Inlet incident matches a description of a robber at CVS and Walgreens stores throughout the Charleston, Mount Pleasant and Columbia areas.
The drugstore chain declined to comment on whether stores are beefing up security because of the recent robberies.
"We're always evaluating our security policies and procedures, but we don't comment on specific measures so as not to reveal them," said CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis.
He did say narcotic painkillers such as Oxycodone "are historically a target for pharmacy robberies."
While area investigators search for suspects in two recent pharmacy robberies, they remain uncertain whether the crimes were committed by the same person.
A man with a knife kidnapped two CVS Pharmacy employees and robbed the store shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday, Myrtle Beach police said.
About a week earlier, a man robbed a pharmacy in Murrells Inlet.
"They do look similar, but are we 100 percent sure it's the same person? No," said Myrtle Beach police spokesman Capt. David Knipes.
The robber in Myrtle Beach walked into the store at 512 S. Kings Highway about 6:50 p.m. and made a store employee and a pharmacy worker go to the back of the store while he went through the pharmacy, said Capt. David Knipes.
The man asked the employees for Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller, before going behind the pharmacy counter, taking two 100-pill bottles of generic Tylenol and fleeing out the store's rear fire escape door, a police report said.
On Feb. 18 in Murrells Inlet, an armed man demanded prescription drugs during the robbery of a CVS, the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office said.
Georgetown County and Myrtle Beach police are working together because the events are similar.
CVS security officials have said the man in the Murrells Inlet incident matches a description of a robber at CVS and Walgreens stores throughout the Charleston, Mount Pleasant and Columbia areas.
The drugstore chain declined to comment on whether stores are beefing up security because of the recent robberies.
"We're always evaluating our security policies and procedures, but we don't comment on specific measures so as not to reveal them," said CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis.
He did say narcotic painkillers such as Oxycodone "are historically a target for pharmacy robberies."
CVS security agents are working the investigation closely with law enforcement officials in hopes of apprehending and arresting them before anyone gets hurt an investigator said.
Anyone with information about the two CVS Pharmacy robberies is asked to call Myrtle Beach investigators at 918-1902 or the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office at 546-5102.
Anyone with information about the two CVS Pharmacy robberies is asked to call Myrtle Beach investigators at 918-1902 or the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office at 546-5102.
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