The epidemic of prescription drug dealing and addiction has been well documented lately but it only takes one glaring incident to show how serious the problem has become. That took place at a Lakeland CVS in Polk County Yesterday. A man walked into the drug store in the middle of the day with a knife and robbed the store of OxyContin pills. According to TBO.com the number of robberies involving prescription pills is up nationally.
This is the first robbery in Polk County of a pharmacy in 14 months. The suspect is still at large and is reported to be driving a black Ford Thunderbird. He is described as a white male about 6 feet tall. The robbery all told took less than one minute and nobody was hurt
