Pharmacy robbery mirrors May incident

SOUTH SALT LAKE — Two men brandishing handguns robbed a drug store Monday, taking off with a load of the narcotic drug OxyContin, police said.

An employee tending the pharmacy counter at the front of the store, 635 E. 3300 South, recognized the men from a previous robbery in May and ran to the back of the store. She locked herself in a room and called police, said South Salt Lake police spokesman Greg Keller.

The men emptied a drawer containing OxyContin and left the store, running into the nearby residential neighborhood. The description of the men and details of the crime mirror the May robbery at the same store, Keller said.

— Michael Gonda