Police are investigating a burglary at a Northampton pharmacy after the “offender/s broke in via the roof”, C+D yesterday (September 3) learned.
A Northamptonshire Police spokesperson confirmed that the burglary took place at Unidrugs Pharmacy in Hunsbury Hill Road, Camp Hill, between 5.30pm on August 28 and 8.55am on August 29.
They said that “the items stolen include Viagra, a small amount of cash from the register and multiple boxes of Zopiclone” - a sleeping pill used in the short-term treatment of severe insomnia.
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Police did not confirm the monetary value of the theft and stated that no witness had yet come forward.
The force called for “witnesses or anyone with information, including CCTV, doorbell or dash-cam footage” to come forward.
Unidrugs Pharmacy declined to comment.
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It comes as a young Well Pharmacy worker was last month sentenced to a community order of 100 hours unpaid work for stealing £1.3k from the till over a five-month period.
Also last month, a man was jailed for 12 years for three robberies in East Sussex after holding pharmacy staff at knifepoint to hand over opioid medication, while another was jailed for a serious assault on a woman that left witnesses “barricaded” in a nearby pharmacy .
And Wigan and Leigh police found “stolen or fake” prescription-only medicines (POMs) and arrested a man who “appeared to be running his own mobile pharmacy” from a vehicle, C+D reported in August.
