GUNMAN HOLDS UP DRUGSTORE.Byline: Amy Raisin Darvish Staff Writer NEWHALL - A man armed with a handgun entered a Lyons Avenue pharmacy Wednesday afternoon and demanded prescription painkillers and sedatives and an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing, authorities said. The suspect entered The Medicine Shoppe just before 1 p.m. with a chrome .45-caliber handgun and forced the employees to the rear of the store, said Lt. Scott Young For other uses, see Scott Young (disambiguation). Scott Young (April 14, 1918 – June 12, 2005) was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. . The gunman ordered the employees to fill a bag with the drugs OxyContin Ox·y·con·tin A trademark for the drug oxycodone. oxycodone hydrochloride ETH-Oxydose, OxyContin, OxyFast, Oxy-IR, Oxynorm (UK), Roxicodone, Supeudol (CA) Pharmacologic class: Opioid agonist , Vicodin, Valium and Soma soma (sō`mə), psychotropic plant, the juice of which was sometimes drunk as part of the Vedic sacrifice (see Veda). Many hymns in the Rig-Veda are in praise of soma. , as well as some money from the register, before running eastbound through the parking lot to Wiley Canyon Road. No one was injured. The gunman, a Latino about 21 years old with brown hair and brown eyes Brown Eyes (브라운 아이즈) was a Korean musical duo, specializing in ballads. Although both members have powerful voices, they were initially disregarded because of their physical looks. , was described as being about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds. He was wearing a black hat, black shirt and stone-washed blue jeans blue jeans also blue·jeans pl.n. Clothes, especially pants, made of blue denim. blue jeans npl → tejanos mpl; vaqueros mpl , witnesses said. Young said the same pharmacy was robbed at gunpoint last September by a man who also made off with prescription medications and some cash, but he could not confirm whether the suspect description for last year's robbery matched Wednesday's crime. ``In the robbery on September 29, we had a lone male who held (the pharmacy) up for drugs and money,'' Young said. ``We can say that it was the same manner in the sense that it was a lone individual and what he was after. Beyond that, it's under investigation.'' Anyone with information is asked to call the Santa Clarita sheriff's station at (661) 255-1121. Amy Raisin Darvish, (661) 257-5254 amy.raisin(at)dailynews.com |
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