Thursday, 1-14-10

At 10:02 am dispatch received a 911 call of an armed robbery which had just occurred at the CVS Pharmacy at 800 N. Orange Avenue. The caller reported that a white female had entered the store and had gone to the pharmacy. She told the pharmacist she was armed with a handgun and demanded Oxycontin. The woman threatened to shoot the pharmacist if she did not get the drugs within 30 seconds.

The pharmacist gave the woman a bottle containing 100 oxycontin, valued at $415.00.

Arriving officers quickly put out a description of the robber to other officers. One thing witnesses had not observed was what type of vehicle the robber had fled the scene in. An arriving officer spoke with a woman in the parking lot who told him the only woman she had seen come out of the pharmacy had gotten into a blue and white truck with a ladder and rack on the bed. She then pointed to the truck which was stopped on Houston Street waiting for the light to change.

Before the officer could get to his car and drive to the intersection, the truck was gone. The officer drove south on Orange Avenue attempting to locate the truck. When he turned west onto Ferris Street he saw the same truck being driven by a white male turning west onto Ferris Street from Cypress Street. The officer saw a white female in the passenger seat who turned completely around in her seat and looked at the patrol car as it approached the truck.

The officer initiated a traffic stop on the truck, which pulled into the Green Cove Inn at 1225 Idlewild Avenue. Arriving officers removed the man and woman from the truck and detained them. Both pharmacists were brought to the scene separately and made positive identifications of the female as the person who committed the robbery.

Both the man and woman were brought to the police department for questioning. The man told officers he had given the female a ride to court this morning and when they left she asked him to stop at CVS so she could get a drink. He parked in the parking lot and gave her $2.00 to get the drink with and waited for her in the truck. He said he had no idea that she had robbed the pharmacy.

When the female was questioned, she initially denied committing the robbery. She told officer she had gone in and purchased a drink, then left. After being confronted with the pharmacists identification, she admitted she had planned the robbery prior to going to court as she had an addiction problem.

Monaka Yvonne Foster, 28, was arrested for Robbery and booked into jail. The male was released.