Slidell pharmacy robbed at gun point

By Erik Sanzenbach
St. Tammany News
Published on Friday, May 23, 2008 9:25 AM CDT

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Slidell police were searching for an armed suspect who robbed the Family Drug Mart on Gause Boulevard Thursday afternoon.

Police spokesman Capt. Kevin Foltz said the suspect got away with an undetermined amount of cash and narcotics from the pharmacy.

The robber entered the pharmacy around 1 p.m. and pointed a black semiautomatic handgun at the two employees. Foltz said the suspect did not make any demands on the pharmacist and clerk, but after he took the cash and drugs, he ordered the two to lie on the floor and fled through the pharmacy’s back door.

“We got a good description of the man,” Police Chief Freddie Drennan said, adding the police will look at the store’s surveillance videotape to get a better description of the robber.

Foltz said the suspect is a white male, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with a thin build, fair skin and a scruffy beard.

The suspect was last seen wearing a dark baseball cap, blue jeans and a black T-shirt with unknown lettering.

The pharmacist told police the robber also had either a rash or insect bite on one of his hands.

The Slidell K-9 Unit searched the woods behind the pharmacy for the suspect, and at press time, the robber was still at large.

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