Gunman steals oxycontin from Mishawaka pharmacy

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CVS pharmacy oxycontin robbery

Police use a dog to track a suspect Thursday in the armed robbery of the CVS next to Martin's on Ironwood Drive near Lincoln Way East. (Tribune Photo/JIM RIDER)

By Beth Boehne

Story Created: Nov 20, 2008 at 4:18 PM EST

Story Updated: Nov 20, 2008 at 5:01 PM EST

MISHAWAKA – Police are searching for an armed man who robbed the CVS pharmacy on Ironwood Drive Thursday afternoon.

Just after 2:40 p.m., police say a man wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt displayed a handgun and demanded oxycontin from the pharmacy counter of the store at 304 N. Ironwood.

The man received an undetermined amount of the narcotic drug and ran out a rear emergency exit into a nearby neighborhood.

Police using dogs searched the neighborhood south of the store, near the intersection of Ironwood and Lincoln Way West, but were unable to find the man.

A similar robbery took place at the store two weeks earlier, on Nov. 6, when a man robbed the store of more than 500 prescription pain killers.

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