Video: Free Keene Blogger JJ Helps With Arrest Of Pharmacy Robbery Suspect – WMUR

by | Oct 20, 2009 | 0 comments

See the video here on WMUR’s site. Here’s the text of the report:

KEENE, N.H. — Two witnesses helped police track down and arrest a man charged with robbing a Keene pharmacy at knifepoint.

Police said a man robbed the Apothecary Pharmacy at about 5 p.m. on Monday. Police said he left with painkillers and was spotted by at least two men nearby.

“Basically, he came right out the door and was running, so I followed him into the alleyway,” said witness James Schlessinger.

Schlessinger openly carries a gun and said he wasn’t concerned about the possibility of the man having a weapon.

“I was armed and I wasn’t so scared because his attention wasn’t so much on other people as it was running away,” Schlessinger said. (more…)