Pharmacy robbed, police search for suspect – UPDATED

Credit: Bristol Tennessee Police Department

A Virginia Avenue pharmacy was robbed earlier this evening, police said.

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City police officers searched late Tuesday for a man they said robbed a pharmacy armed with a note and a box cutter, and then likely fled in a red pickup truck.

The robbery occurred just before 5:45 p.m. at the CVS Pharmacy in the 1300 block of Virginia Avenue, according to a written statement from the Bristol Tennessee Police Department.

The man went into the store, walked to the pharmacy counter, and handed the clerk a note, said police Capt. Charlie Thomas. The man was armed with what appeared to be a box cutter, police said.

The note demanded narcotics, which were quickly dispensed to him, and the man ran out of the pharmacy, police said.

Police are looking for an older model, red Chevy extended-cab truck that other witnesses said they saw parked behind the CVS about the time the robbery occurred.

The witnesses at the shopping center told police they saw a man get into the truck, which was parked behind the store, shortly before it pulled out and turned left headed toward Georgia Avenue, a few blocks from the pharmacy.

About 45 minutes after the robbery, officers could be seen inside the pharmacy, dusting for fingerprints. People milling around outside the pharmacy said they hadnt seen the man leave, but had heard he was driving a red truck, which they hadnt seen.

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