Hartford Woman Accused Of Robbing Southington CVS, Assaulting An Employee: Police

SOUTHINGTON/HARTFORD, CT — A 24-year-old Hartford woman who police said violently robbed a CVS pharmacy store in Southington last month has been charged following a wild police chase.

According to the Southington Police Department Tuesday afternoon, Tadae S. Love, 24, of Hartford was charged this week with second-degree robbery, conspiracy to commit second-degree robbery, third-degree assault, third-degree larceny, conspiracy to commit third-degree larceny, second-degree breach of peace, engaging police in pursuit, sixth-degree larceny, interfering with a police officer, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, evading responsibility for injury/prooperty damage, and failure to obey a traffic control signal.

Police said the incident happened last month at the CVS store located at 326 Main St., Southington.

According to the SPD, on Thursday, June 19, at 3:50 p.m., officers responded to that store for a robbery that had just been reported.

Two suspects were involved, police said, an adult male and an adult female, who was eventually identified as Love.

Police, who did not identify the male suspect, said the pair arrived together at CVS in a vehicle and entered the store.

The incident began when the male suspect made contact with a female employee seeking access to a locked fragrance display case, police said.

Once access was denied by the employee, Love confronted the employee, kicking and shoving her backward, police said in a release issued Tuesday, July 8.

"Love then forcefully removed a set of keys from a lanyard around the employee’s neck,
accessed the fragrance display, and loaded over $2,000 of merchandise into a large beach
bag," wrote the SPD.

Love and the male suspect then fled to their vehicle, which was identified to be a black
2017 Acura MDX bearing a Connecticut registration, and left the area, prompting a police
response, wrote the SPD.

Police said the CVS employee sustained minor injuries from the incident.

On Monday, June 23, at 12:25 p.m., officers were alerted that the aforementioned suspect vehicle was traveling in the area of Queen Street, police said.

According to the SPD, officers were able to locate the vehicle parked at Bob’s Discount Furniture parking lot at 835 Queen St.

Officers observed a female matching the description from the CVS incident exit the store with two large beach bags, which appeared to contain merchandise, police said.

Police said that as officers went to confront the female, she quickly entered her vehicle and fled the busy parking lot at a "high rate of speed."

"A pursuit prevention device was deployed by an officer within the lot, successfully disabling the suspect vehicle’s front passenger side tire as it fled northbound onto Queen Street," wrote Southington police.

A short while later, the suspect vehicle was located unoccupied and abandoned, parked in a nearby residential driveway, police said.

The vehicle was seized and later searched, following the execution of a search warrant.

It was confirmed, police said, that the female had stolen more than $200 in merchandise from TJ Maxx.

In the days that followed, arrest warrants were sought following the identification of Love.

On Monday, July 7, Love was taken into custody at New Britain Superior Court, where she was being arraigned for a previous robbery arrest.

Love was transported to Southington police headquarters, where she was processed accordingly and ultimately released after posting $100,000 bond.

Love is scheduled to appear in New Britain Superior Court on July 21.