Throwback.A pharmacy owner in Boston fired at an armed robber in his store on May 6, driving the robber away. The unidentified thief entered the store just before 3 p.m., wearing a ski mask, ball cap, and hood; and he announced that it was a robbery. Police believe that the robber, like dozens of other robbers in the area in recent years, was after 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 , or "hillbilly heroin." When the robber pulled his gun out, pharmacist pharmacist /phar·ma·cist/ (fahr´mah-sist) one who is licensed to prepare and sell or dispense drugs and compounds, and to make up prescriptions. phar·ma·cist n. Lawrence Maida, Sr. drew his own gun and fired. The robber fired back and then fled. No one was injured. Maida was described in a Boston Herald The Boston Herald is a tabloid format newspaper, though not a tabloid in the traditional sense, and is the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts (the other being The Boston Globe). article as a beloved second-generation druggist An individual who, as a regular course of business, mixes, compounds, dispenses, and sells medicines and similar health aids. The term druggist may be used interchangeably with pharmacist. who offers genuinely friendly customer service, but as Maida's wife Rosemary said, "These people nowadays will kill you." Maida, who has driven off robbers with a gun before, will not face charges. |
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