Michael RobertsA 38-year-old man who police say threw gasoline on a Dalton, Ga., pharmacy employee so he could get away with stolen drugs and then led police on a nine-day chase was caught Friday.
Police said a man found Michael Roberts hiding in the woods on his Dalton property two days after Roberts had escaped from police for the second time.
On May 29, Dalton Police Department spokesman Bruce Frazier said, a man walked into the Dalton Drug Pharmacy and demanded pain pills. When the pharmacist refused, the man threw gas on her and ran out the store with several bottles of Percocet.
Pharmacist Kerry Plemmons wasn’t working when the man burst through the store. But he heard from his employees that they watched him carrying a small container and then rush to the pharmacy counter.
“It was bizarre,” he said. “I’ve been a pharmacist for 40 years, but I’ve never seen anything like this.”