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A 23-year-old Florida man is facing charges after police say he handed a note to a pharmacy employee requesting a clean list of prescription drugs, including Viagra.
According to the Orlando Police Department, Thomas Muse left a handwritten note to pharmacists at a CVS store around 6 p.m. stating that he had a gun and that he would be shot if they did not give him the pills listed in the note. He reportedly handed it over.
“This is an armed robbery!!!” Muse wrote in the note, police said.
“Please cooperate because I don’t want to hurt you. Don’t startle anyone or I’ll shoot the person closest to me! Follow this instruction or I’ll shoot the person closest to me!”
Investigators said the robbery memo “details a long list of very specific demands,” including six types of drugs and their instructions.
The 23-year-old man demanded that the pharmacist fill the bag with oxycodone, hydrocodone, Xanax, Adderall, liquid codeine and Viagra.
Officers arrived at the scene as Muse was coming out of the store, according to a news release. Officers pursued him on foot and eventually took him into custody.
Police said the suspect still had the stolen drugs and a note he wrote at the time of his arrest.
Police said Muse admitted to traveling from Jacksonville to Orlando to “carry out the plan” and also confessed to committing another similar robbery in central Florida.
Orlando police said Muse was charged with several counts of robbery, human trafficking and possession.
