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Police seek would-be pharmacy robber
Borough Police Chief Randy Cox
S.C. Spangler/Tribune-Review
Paul Peirce can be reached via e-mail or at 724-850-2860.
"The good news is that no one was hurt and nothing was taken," said Ligonier police Chief Randy Cox.
Cox said a pharmacist, store clerk and one customer were in the Ligonier Pharmacy at 113 S. Fairfield St. at 9:15 a.m. when a man wearing a blue, hooded jacket and ski mask entered and demanded the store's supply of OxyContin.
"He (the robber) said, 'Give me your Oxy and no one will get hurt,'" Cox said.
Cox said when the pharmacist moved toward the pharmacy's drug supplies, the robber became alarmed and asked where the worker was headed.
"They told the robber that they were going to get him the drugs," Cox said.
Cox said neither employee saw a gun, but both workers said he kept one hand in a coat pocket as if he carried a weapon.
After telling the robber there was no OxyContin, Cox said the man ran out of the store heading south on South Fairfield Street toward Route 30, about one block away. Police believe he left in a waiting vehicle.
Cox said another suspicious man, also wearing a ski mask, but with a black, hooded jacket, entered the store about one-half hour before the robbery attempt asking employees for directions. Police said the men could have been working together.
Both men were described by employees as approximately 6 feet tall and Caucasian.
The pharmacy was last robbed in June 1983.
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