This story is like Hansel and Gretel for the opioid era.
Last month, three guys in Clearwater, Florida robbed a CVS . . . and they clearly put a lot of time into the prep.
They struck at 5:00 A.M. wearing surgical gloves, they waved guns and tied up the employees with zip ties, and they knew exactly what they wanted to steal: As many bottles of opioids like hydrocodone and oxycodone as they could get their hands on.
They ended up getting away with 10,000 or so pills. But as the cops were investigating the scene, they started noticing pill bottles on the street. Apparently, as the guys sped away, they were emptying pills they stole into bags, then tossing the bottles out of their car.
So the cops followed the trail of pill bottles . . . all the way to a house where they found the robbers and $320,000 worth of pills.
19-year-old Christopher Rachell, 19-year-old David Dobbins, and 18-year-old Roy Lampkin were all arrested. And they were all charged with armed robbery, drug trafficking, and false imprisonment.
(Here are their mugshots. From left to right: Roy, David, Christopher.)
