{"id":9253,"date":"2016-09-05T02:05:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2016-09-05T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T06:05:56","slug":"cops-armed-men-stormed-brick-pharmacy-stole-narcotic-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/09\/cops-armed-men-stormed-brick-pharmacy-stole-narcotic-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops: Armed Men Stormed Brick Pharmacy, Stole Narcotic Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9254\" style=\"width: 716px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects.jpg\" alt=\"Suspects in the armed robbery of the Brick Rite Aid store. (Photos: Brick Twp. Police)\" width=\"706\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects.jpg 706w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects-400x271.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects-110x75.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suspects in the armed robbery of the Brick Rite Aid store. (Photos: Brick Twp. Police)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police are searching for three men who entered a township pharmacy, disabled the door and held patrons and associates at gunpoint while stealing prescription narcotics from the pharmacy department.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at the Rite Aid pharmacy on Burnt Tavern Road at about 6 p.m., Sgt. Henry Drew. According to Drew,\u00a0one of the men \u2013\u00a0armed with a silver and black handgun \u2013 disabled the automatic door, and kept watch of a store associate and several patrons. The two other men\u00a0proceeded to the rear of the store, where the pharmacy is located. These two men \u2013\u00a0one who\u00a0was armed with a black handgun \u2013 jumped\u00a0over the pharmacy counter, and \u201cdemand several types of prescription narcotics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The medications were turned over to the suspects, who then loaded them into a backpack that\u00a0one of the men\u00a0was wearing. The trio\u00a0then ran to the front of the store, at which time the automatic door was reactivated by the man\u00a0who remained up front.<\/p>\n<p>The group then fled on foot toward Red Maple Drive, then \u2013 according to information ascertained by officers on scene \u2013 may have entered a small, black or blue SUV and drove eastbound on Van Zile Road toward Route 70.\u00a0The SUV was described as possibly being either a Toyota or Mazda with no visible front plate.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are described as being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A black male, approximately 6\u2019, 170-190 pounds, 20-30 years of age, full beard and mustache, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark shorts, white sneakers, in possession of silver and black semi-automatic handgun.<\/li>\n<li>A black male, approximately 5-08\u2019, 150-170 pounds, 20-30 years of age, wearing gray sweatpants, a black jacket, white sneakers, a white hat with a black Adidas symbol, and a dark colored backpack, in possession of a black semi-automatic handgun.<\/li>\n<li>A black male, approximately 5-09\u2019, 150-170 pounds, 20-30 years of age, clean shaven, wearing a dark colored hooded sweatshirt, blue sweat pants with a double white stripe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThe subjects should be considered armed and dangerous,\u201d Drew said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who recognizes the suspects is being urged to\u00a0contact Detective Joseph Leskowski in the Brick Police Detective Bureau at 732-262-1121. You can also contact the Brick Township Police directly at 732-262-1100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/09\/cops-armed-men-stormed-brick-pharmacy-stole-narcotic-drugs\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick police are searching for three men who entered a township pharmacy, disabled the door and held patrons and associates at gunpoint while stealing prescription narcotics from the pharmacy department. The incident occurred at the Rite Aid pharmacy on Burnt Tavern Road at about 6 p.m., Sgt. Henry Drew. According to Drew,\u00a0one of the men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[328,24,2405],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-armed-robbery","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-rite-aid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rite_suspects.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}