Thief crawls through attic to break into Rock Hill pharmacy

ROCK HILL --

More than 1,000 pills were stolen from a Rock Hill pharmacy early Monday - the same pharmacy that was the target of a 2009 crime spree.

Surveillance footage shows a man enter Good Pharmacy on Ebenezer Road about 3:40 a.m., grab several bottles of pills and run out, according to a Rock Hill police report.

When an employee arrived Monday morning, he noticed a ladder was at the rear of the building and a vent had been removed, the report states. The vent goes into the attic. He then called police.

It appears the thief carried a stepladder, climbed up to the roof, crawled into the attic and down the ladder into the pharmacy.

An inventory of the pharmacy showed that two bottles of Lortab, a bottle of Klonopin, six bottles of a high blood pressure medication and a bottle of Naxproxen were missing, the report states. The total number of pills stolen was not available, but it numbers in the thousands.

A value of the pills was also unavailable, the report states.

It's emotional, Alton Hyatt said. We take a lot of pride in the community. The community's been great to us, yet here we get hit again.

In a highly-publicized crime spree in June 2009, three men smashed their way into Good Pharmacy three times in as many weeks. Video showed them kicking open doors, shattering large picture windows and doing major damage to the small building. During each crime, they loaded up with high-powered painkillers and antidepressant medication.

A WSOC-TV viewer recognized the suspects from surveillance video and they were arrested within weeks of the last break-in. One of the suspects still had pill bottles stolen from the pharmacy in his car.

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Thief crawls through attic to break into Rock Hill pharmacy