
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007200661
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: PEARISBURG                                LENGTH: Short

PULASKI MAN CHARGED IN THEFT OF PILLS

Police have charged a Pulaski man in the July 1 armed robbery of more than $7,000 in prescription pills from a Pearisburg drugstore.

Keith Duane Hall, 29, was arrested Wednesday.

Two cashiers and a pharmacist at the Rite Aid Pharmacy in the Magic Mart shopping center told police a gunman jumped over the counter, pointed a revolver at the pharmacist and demanded specific narcotic painkillers.

After emptying the store's limited supply of the drugs, the gunman ran behind the shopping center and disappeared.

Hall is charged with armed robbery and using a gun to commit a felony. No bond has been set, Police Chief Bill Whitsett said.

"We're still investigating the matter," he said. "We've had a number of similar incidents in the area." - New River Valley bureau

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