Police searching for armed robbery suspect
Man threatens clerk with knife
CBC News
Posted: Nov 22, 2012 7:42 PM ET
Last Updated: Nov 22, 2012 7:39 PM ET
Windsor police are on the lookout for a man who attempted to rob a pharmacy Thursday afternoon.
According to police, a man entered the pharmacy at the Ottawa Street Medical Centre at around 3 p.m. ET Thursday.
The man threatened a clerk with a knife and demanded drugs.
Staff gave the man a package and he left.
Police didn't say what was in the package.
The man is described in his 20s, approximately 177 centimeters tall, or about five-foot-eight, and was wearing a hooded-green parka.
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