FBI offers $15,000 reward in pharmacy robberies
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/12/fbi-offers-15000-reward-pharmacy-robberies
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The FBI is offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man believed to have robbed pharmacies in Hampton and Newport News along with other cities and counties around the state.
The man is distinctive because he used a white T-shirt to cover his face during the robberies.
The most recent incident was on Nov. 17 when the man walked into the Rite Aid on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard in Newport News, approached the pharmacy and demanded “oxy,” the release says. On Oct. 26, the man demanded Oxycodone pills in specific doses from a CVS on West Mercury Boulevard in Hampton.
Other robberies have been reported in Fredericksburg, Williamsburg and in Henrico, Hanover, Arlington and Prince William counties.
In several of the robberies, the man drove away in a Dodge Nitro SUV that may have been white or silver. He also was described as having some facial hair and wearing a ball cap.
Police are asking anyone with information to call their local department or to contact the FBI at 804-261-1044.
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If you’re a pessimist, I guess you could cue the music from Cops:
“Bad boys, bad boys, watcha gonna do?”
What happened was, his stash got robbed. And since he didn’t want to get his legs broken (4 kids to take care of) or maybe worse, he robbed Peter to pay Paul.
“Watcha gonna do when they come for you?”
***Cue music from “Days of Our Lives”….
Almost a best-seller. People who have the prescription can’t get the pharmacies to sell them their medication so they decide to get the medication anyway they can to stop the suffering. But wait-people that are being discriminated against and bringing a legal prescription are in too much pain to leave their home much less jump over counters and rob people. How much sense does it take for the police and the great DEA to concentrate on the criminals and the dealers. Leave the doctors and patients alone please. How hard would it be to make pharmacies safe like banks? How much of the money spent in Tennessee searching for one compassionate doctor or one honest Pharmacy that fills prescriptions would pay for this? I do love the theories!
Medicaid’s Pharmacy Benefit Manager would only approve methadone for pain management, which made his daughter (who suffers from a rare medical condition) quite ill. After 2 years of appeals for approval of Oxy — and watching his daughter’s suffering increase and her condition deteriorate — when he received the latest denial letter, why, he just gave up. His daughter deserved to have her pain treated exactly as the doctor advised, and he was through trying to do it the legal way.
He tried to make his own concoction, but he wasn’t a chemist, and his daughter was suffering… After all, it was his only child. Any father would do the same, instead of standing around and feeling helpless. He doesn’t care what will happen to him, and he’s through caring about all these stupid rules and laws.
He doesn’t care what he has to do, he just can’t stand watching his daughter suffer like this any more. Before his daughter’s medical condition put the family into bankruptcy (and so close to being homeless), he had good benefits — he was able to provide Oxy for his daughter. He knows the right dosage…
Can you imagine the adoring look on his daughter’s face when he gives her the Oxy? The look on her face when she finally begins to feel some relief?
Obamacare wouldn’t let him keep the plan he liked or the doctors he liked or the prescription medications that worked for him and he cant afford the exchange premium or the $5000.00 deductible forced on him by the ‘better plan’ (couldn’t resist after reading Painkills2 comment) Interesting that he’s asking for specific strengths…
He covers his face with a white t-shirt because he’s playing Robin Hood. And he asks for a specific dosage because he’s giving the Oxy to senior citizens who can’t afford their own. I also heard that his daughter has pancreatic cancer (one of the most painful), only has a few months to live, and is in terrible, agonizing pain… and yet her doctors refuse to prescribe anything stronger than Tylenol.
Yes, I know that these robberies are awful, but wouldn’t it be interesting if this guy was really stealing drugs so he could give them away to poor folks?
Breaking Bad, people.