] Local Pharmacist foils robbery attempt

As I’m sure all here know, we’ve had a fairly regular string of
pharmacy robberies over the last couple of years. Usually the crooks
are demanding Oxycotin or some other drug with high street value.
We’ve had a large number of cases where the same individual was
responsible for a string of robberies, almost certainly supplying
others, rather than just his own habit.

Sadly, in almost all cases the pharmacists complies and the thief gets
away. In some cases–usually the repeat offenders–the bad guy will
eventually get caught, but not in the act.

This story is much different. The pharmacist runs a small, family
owned business and makes clear in the article he wants others to know
he will continue to defend himself and his business with his gun. He
does not intend to be an easy target.

Not only this guy NOT become a victim, he helped prevent more drugs
from ending up on the street feeding and creating more habits and
problems there.

Sadly, the judicial system engaged in its usual catch and release for
the perp.

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Charles

thief handed a note demanding Oxycontin over the counter of a Murray
pharmacy, but the pharmacist had a surprise under the counter.

“I just pulled a gun on him and said ‘get out of here,” Rod Dunn tells
KSL. Pharmacist Rod Dunn is tired of getting robbed for pills and he’s
not going to take it anymore, so he used a gun to protect his pharmacy
and employees.

It happened at Millcreek Pharmacy, a family-owned and run business.
The man who tried to rob them quickly learned not to mess with this
pharmacy.

Rod Dunn has been robbed before, he says about 20 times. It’s why he
made the counters tall and deep and the enclosures high. “So we can
just step this way and we’ll be out of their sight,” he said.

It’s also why he has a gun. Just over a week ago, he pulled it out on
Joseph Chiazzese, who had come into the pharmacy, left, then came back.

…

The Dunn’s will do this again because they don’t want to get robbed
again. They hope word gets out to leave their pharmacy alone.

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