BANGOR — The woman who drove the getaway car during a Jan. 22 robbery of a CVS pharmacy in Augusta was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison. Candice Marie Eaton, 26, pleaded guilty in April to one count of being an accessory after the fact to the robbery of a […]
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Organizer of Augusta pharmacy robbery sentenced to nearly 4 years
BANGOR (AP) — An Augusta woman described by authorities as the driving force behind a pharmacy robbery in the city has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Stephanie McCormick was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bangor to three years and 10 months behind bars and three years of probation. She was fined […]
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Augusta woman faces harsh sentence for pharmacy robbery
BANGOR (AP) — An Augusta woman described by a federal judge as the mastermind of a pharmacy robbery faces more than four years in prison at sentencing. Stephanie McCormick is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor in connection with the Jan. 22 robbery of an Augusta Walgreens. Although McCormick’s cousin, […]
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Police charge two men in attempted Dexter Rite Aid robbery foiled by pharmacist
DEXTER — Dexter police have arrested two men in connection with a Nov. 25 attempted robbery at Rite Aid. Tyler Huff, 22, of Corinna was arrested Nov. 27 and Michael Hames, 21, of Palmyra was arrested the next day, Thanksgiving, according to Dexter police Lt. Alan Grinnell. Police charged both men with one count of […]
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Dresden man charged with robbing same Augusta pharmacy twice in 3 days
AUGUSTA (AP) — Police have arrested a Dresden man they say robbed the same Augusta pharmacy twice in three days. Ryan McLaughlin was arrested initially by FBI agents on Thursday on unrelated warrants, but later was hit with federal robbery charges in connection with robberies on Monday and Wednesday at the Osco pharmacy inside the […]
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Supermarket pharmacy robbed in Augusta
AUGUSTA (AP) — Police in Maine are on the lookout for a suspect who robbed a pharmacy inside a Shaw’s supermarket. Augusta police say a man in his 20s with a short scruffy beard approached the pharmacy counter inside the Western Avenue supermarket at about 12:25 p.m. Monday. He was given Oxycontin painkiller pills after […]
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Pharmacy groups challenge Maine’s drug importation law
AUGUSTA — Several Maine pharmacy organizations have joined with a major pharmaceutical trade group to challenge the legality of a new Maine law that allows international firms to fill mail-order prescriptions. The Maine Pharmacy Association, Retail Association of Maine, Maine Society of Health System Pharmacists, and several individual Maine pharmacists, along with national industry group […]
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Pharmacy employees take more than one-third of prescription drugs stolen in Maine
First of two parts Most of the people who fill your prescriptions are honest and do their job well. But some of those people in white smocks are thieves, drug addicts or both. The typical image of drug thieves is armed robbers with masks holding up pharmacies for pills to feed their habit. But stealing […]
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Maine, feds join to fight pharmacy robberies
AUGUSTA (AP) — Law enforcement officers from around Maine are being sworn in as special federal agents as part of a cooperative effort to fight the rapid rise of pharmacy robberies in the state. Maine’s 58 pharmacy robberies in 2012 were more than double the previous year. The 18 state, county and local law enforcement […]