What Is It With Pharmacies?

NBC 4: Two more local pharmacies were robbed Friday, and authorities apprehended a male and female suspect after issuing an all-points bulletin earlier in the day. Columbus police and the Franklin County sheriff’s office were working together to find the two robbery suspects. CPD SWAT held a stakeout at a previously hit Walgreens at 1162 Harrisburg Pike. The suspects were sitting in a white van in the lot when SWAT arrived… The suspects fled the stakeout scene. Authorities chased them one block and made an apprehension. Authorities said the man-female team robbed a Walgreens at 3445 S. High St. before 9 a.m. Friday. That’s on the city’s South Side. The same two robbed a CVS at 2929 Stelzer Rd. on the city’s Northeast Side before 1 p.m., according to authorities.

10 TV: Surveillance video captured a man robbing a north side drug store on Thursday afternoon. Police said the man entered the Walgreens store, located at 4401 Cleveland Ave. near Morse Road, at about 4:30 p.m... He approached the counter and gave the employee a note demanding money. Investigators said he implied that he had a gun, but never showed one. The clerk complied and gave the robber money from the register. The man is described as white and in his late 30s to early 40s. Police said he is about 6 feet tall with a thin build and has a mustache and small goatee. He was wearing a dark baseball hat with a tan bill, a grey and blue flannel hooded jacket and blue jeans. Anyone with information is asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4545 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-645-TIPS.