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Trio charged in Oxycontin heist...
Narcotics with street value of nearly $100,000 taken at gunpoint from CVS Pharmacy.
A man with a stocking-clad face smashed a North Stafford's pharmacy window over the weekend, stealing powerful prescription painkillers with a street value of $100,000.
Stafford deputies recovered the drugs before they could do any harm, according to Stafford Sheriff Charles Jett. Three people were arrested, he said.
The tote bag full of medications was taken early Saturday morning from the CVS Pharmacy at 388 Garrisonville Road, Jett said.
The drugs--which included morphine and Oxycontin--have a retail value of about $14,000 but could be sold illegally for as much as $100,000, he said.
It happened just after 1 a.m., when a man arrived wearing a stocking over his face and holding what appeared to be a semiautomatic pistol, Jett said.
The robber broke the pharmacy window and told an employee to fill his bag with the drugs. The pharmacist wasn't hurt, Jett said.
Stafford sheriff's Deputies Vernon Galyen, C.S. Oxley and Jim Fouts were sent to investigate.
Oxley saw a black Volkswagen nearby that didn't have brake lights. A woman was at the wheel, and a man was in the passenger seat. Jett said they matched the description given by CVS employees. The officers stopped the car.
They got the woman out, but the man started swallowing the stolen drugs, Jett said. Inside the car, officers found the bag of drugs and a pellet gun that looked like a semiautomatic pistol.
Robert George Kadis of Stafford, 20, was charged with robbery, use of a firearm in a felony, brandishing a firearm, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and vandalism.
William Byrd Seward of Lorton, 47, was also charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. Seward is accused of waiting across the street from the CVS for the drugs to be delivered.
All three were being held without bond in the Rappahannock Regional Jail, Jett said.
Jett praised the deputies and CVS employees, saying their efforts helped keep the drugs out of the wrong hands.
"The distribution of these potentially dangerous and addictive drugs have been averted from infecting our communities," Jett wrote in an e-mail.
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