Meet a one man prescription for trouble.
A mullet-sporting gunman is being sought for raiding a Bay Ridge pharmacy at gunpoint on June 8 — and then apologizing for his actions.
Police said the rail-thin renegade entered the A and V Pharmacy on Fourth Avenue between 84th and 85th streets at 7 pm with a bandanna over his nose and mouth. He flashed a pistol and gave the local alchemist a note ordering him to hand over the store’s supply of the pain reliever-turned-party-drug Oxycodone.
But the thief wasn’t looking to sell the pills on the street. Rather, it looks like he was addicted to them.
“I’m sorry, but I’ve got to have it,” the thug blurted out before grabbing the drugs and racing away on a bicycle, police sources said.
Pharmacy employees were startled by the lightning fast holdup, but were left unharmed.
“We’re OK,” said one employee, who did not divulge her name.
Investigators have connected the thief to two similar holdups on the other side of the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island. Those thefts occurred in April, police said.
Tuesday’s raid also marks the fourth robbery in the last 12 months in which Oxycodone was swiped from pharmacies in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, said Inspector Eric Rodriguez, the commanding officer of the 68th Precinct.
“But in most cases, these guys don’t flash a weapon,” he said. “They just go behind the pharmacy counter, take what they want and run.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Police say that all calls will be kept confidential.
