Second CVS Pharmacy Robbery Ends With Arrest

ST. CLAIR SHORES, MI. — A day after a Harper Avenue CVS Pharmacy was robbed, a suspect matching the description attempted to rob a second St. Clair Shores CVS on Greater Mack Avenue on Wednesday. Only this time, police were able to catch up and arrest him.

A suspect described as a black male in his mid 30s with a mustache and a goatee, walked into the CVS in the 22000 block of Greater Mack at about 12:45 p.m., according to a St. Clair Shores news release. As in the Tuesday robbery, the suspect flashed a silver handgun at a clerk.

After taking an unspecified amount of cash, police say the man fled on foot. He was found a short time later and arrested without any problems with help from the Grosse Pointe Woods Public Safety Department and Harper Woods police dispatchers, the release stated.

Police said there were no injuries in the incident. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from St. Clair Shores Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

In the Tuesday robbery, police said the suspect was wearing a green hoodie and a green baseball cap with white lettering. On Wednesday, the suspect was wearing a blue sweatshirt and green baseball cap with white lettering.

St. Clair Shores Police didn’t specify charges against the suspect or indicate when he would be arraigned.

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