Big Trouble For Local Pharma: Gang Of Crooks Attack Multiple Metro CVS Locations

Drug stores in Kansas City confrontsa street level threat that seems to be getting worse amid the current recession and rising local desperation.

Here's something else to worry about whilst you're getting hemorrhoid cream . . .

Police learned the men targeted not just one, but a total of four stores in what police have described as a coordinated effort. Now the question is if federal authorities will get involved.

In the video above, the men walk in, one of them stays at the front of the store as a lookout and the other three head straight to the pharmacy.

"Somehow they were able to get in the locked door immediately, went to where the promethazine and codeine were stored, filled up backpacks and their arms and quickly left," Grandview Police Capt. Ryan Sharp said.

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Thieves target four KC-area CVS locations, stealing prescriptions

GRANDVIEW, Mo. - Four men walked right into a local CVS in broad daylight and stole prescription drugs on Easter Sunday. Police learned the men targeted not just one, but a total of four stores in what police have described as a coordinated effort. Now the question is if federal authorities will get involved.