Pharmacy robbed of all its painkiller OxyContin
Police are looking for a man who robbed a pharmacy Tuesday night of its inventory of the prescription painkiller OxyContin.
The robber, described as a 5-foot-10-inch thinly built white- or brown-skinned male, entered the Rite Aid store in the 3000 block of Harbor Boulevard shortly before 11, dressed in black with a white cap and “acting like he had a gun in his pocket,” said Costa Mesa Police Sgt. Mike Ginther. The man ordered the lone pharmacist to turn over all of the store’s OxyContin pills, Ginther said.
OxyContin is a synthetic narcotic that is a time-release painkiller, Ginther said, but it can be ground up and taken to produce an immediate high.
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