Posted on 05/23/2007 8:21:06 AM PDT by skyman
A thief handed a note demanding Oxycontin over the counter of a Murray pharmacy, but the pharmacist had a surprise under the counter.
"I just pulled a gun on him and said 'get out of here," Rod Dunn tells KSL. Pharmacist Rod Dunn is tired of getting robbed for pills and he's not going to take it anymore, so he used a gun to protect his pharmacy and employees.
It happened at Millcreek Pharmacy, a family-owned and run business. The man who tried to rob them quickly learned not to mess with this pharmacy.
Rod Dunn has been robbed before, he says about 20 times. It's why he made the counters tall and deep and the enclosures high. "So we can just step this way and we'll be out of their sight," he said.
It's also why he has a gun. Just over a week ago, he pulled it out on Joseph Chiazzese, who had come into the pharmacy, left, then came back.
Dunn said, "We could see him on the camera - hoodie, dark glasses, cotton gloves - so we knew something was up."
Chiazzese slipped a note on the counter that read 'Oxycontin.' Behind the enclosure Rod started yelling, then, he says, "I just pulled a gun on him and said, ‘get out of here,' and he took off and I started yelling after him."
Armed with a golf club, Dunn's son Jason, went after him. "The whole time I was running after him, thought he had hurt someone or shot someone, and there was no way I was letting him get away," Jason said.
Jason saw Chiazzese drop his knife and tackled him on 13th east. "At one point he kept saying, ‘you gotta let me go.' When I had him down on the corner with the golf club over him, he was telling me, ‘my wife's going to leave me,' whatever."
In a head lock, Jason dragged Chiazzese back to the pharmacy,y where police arrested him.
Murray police detective Kenny Bass said, "Normally we would tell people not to go after them. Looking back at this one, everything worked out well."
The Dunn's will do this again because they don't want to get robbed again. They hope word gets out to leave their pharmacy alone.
Joseph Chiazzese was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail, and we've learned has since been released.
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My brother-in-law was a pharmacist at this very pharmacy in the 1970’s and was robbed several times. Once he was tied up.
I applaude the actions of this business man!
This guy should have plugged the perp then given him a pain killer! Make a better story anyway.
But I keep hearing guns are bad and that they kill people...
Glad this guy had enough of it.
Kudos to Rod and Jason Dunn! I believe they’ll see a drop in robbery attempts.
Might be simpler to just hand the guy a box of cyanide pills and say “Happy to be of service!”
"I just pulled a gun on him and said 'get out of here," Rod Dunn tells KSL. Pharmacist Rod Dunn is tired of getting robbed for pills and he's not going to take it anymore, so he used a gun to protect his pharmacy and employees.
Dunn was quickly arrested by Framingham Police under charges of assault with a deadly weapon, battery, brandishing a firearm, and attempted murder. District Attorney Rodney Pecksniff indicated he will also charge Dunn with a hate crime and violation of state and federal civil rights statutes.
The victim, Joseph Chiazzese, has been provided immunity if he will testify against Dunn. The Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union is paying to put Chiazzese up in the Framingham Sheraton and will pay for his expenses. Trauma counseling is being provided pro bono by the Massachusetts Doctors Against Firearms Violence Center.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he will intorduce legislation making it a felony to possess a firearm.
LOL! That's the spirit. Of course, the limp-wristed pantywaists would have a conniption.
LOL!
About 19 times too many...
Wonder if his wife left him?
“Might be simpler to just hand the guy a box of cyanide pills and say “Happy to be of service!”
By golly, I believe you’ve found the perfect solution!
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,..."
Is “Get out of here” the best thing you can say to a robber being held at gunpoint? Idiot.
Yes, that would be a good outcome: that the criminals learn not to rob this pharmacy. An even better one would be that these robbers rethink their choice of professions.
| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| The noun defense (defence is the British spelling; see SPELLING [1]) is usually pronounced di-FENS, but in the jargon of football and certain other team sports where it means “the defensive unit, or the team currently on the defense, playing against the team with the ball,” it is pronounced DEE-fens. The verb defense is also restricted to sports argot: it means “to design and execute a defense, to defend against,” and it too may be stressed on either syllable. See DEFEND. | 1 |
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