The opioid crisis hit with a vengeance last month at a local supermarket pharmacy and the result is the subject of the Michiana Crime Stoppers Crime of the Week, in hopes that you can help track down the thieves who hit the store in the middle of the night.
Four thieves, clearly on a determined mission, used the cover of early morning darkness to steal a large quantity of prescription drug medication from the pharmacy department at Roger’s Foodland on Hollywood Road in Royalton Township.
At approximately 1:00am on the morning of Thursday, January 11th, 2018, the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department was dispatched to Roger’s Foodland at 4039 Hollywood Road regarding a breaking & entering incident.
Security cameras and surveillance video show that they knew exactly what they were after, inasmuch as moments after the four people pried open the front door, “they proceeded directly to the pharmacy department,” where they stole a significant amount of prescription medication, before escaping back into the night.
Berrien County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas VonKoenig is asking for the public’s help in identifying the people responsible for the felony crime and Michiana Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to their arrest.
You can contact Crime Stoppers about this or any felony crime or fugitive, by submitting an anonymous tip online at www.michianacrimestoppers.com, or through a link on their Facebook page. Or you can submit a tip through the same secure link using your smart phone. Look for the free P3 Tips mobile app. Additionally, you can still call toll free at (800) 342-STOP. You will be given a code number and they won’t ask your name.
Pam Seely, one of the owners of Roger’s says at least they were fortunate that nobody else was in the store at the time of the burglary, so nobody was injured.
The photos accompanying this story on Moody on the Market were provided by Michiana Crime Stoppers and the Berrien County Sheriff’s Department.
