Police search for suspects in pharmacy theft

Police are searching for two men who stole thousands of dollars of narcotics and controlled substances early Saturday from the Medicine Shoppe, 864 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau.

Officers responded to an alarm at the store at 12:47 a.m., Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Barry Hovis said Monday. Officers arrived minutes later to find the store's front door smashed in and no one inside.

A surveillance video recorded two men going behind the pharmacy counter and filling a trash can beneath the store's narcotics drawer with contents from the drawer, Hovis said. He said a list of drugs taken was still being compiled by store managers Monday.

The suspects are black males. Both wore black gloves. One man was wearing a gold and black cap, a black jacket, dark-colored jeans, white shoes. He carried a crowbar. The other man wore a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and white shoes and carried a tan tote bucket.

The men drove away in a 2000-2004 model light to medium colored Chevrolet Malibu.

Police are asking anyone with information to call 335-6621.