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Man arrested in S.W. drug store robbery

Posted Jun 29, 2012 6:53 am.

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A man is in custody following a drug store robbery Thursday night.

Around 11:00 p.m., a man with a knife entered the Shoppers Drug Mart store at Westhills Shopping Centre in the southwest; he was given some narcotics and fled the scene.

HAWCS helicopter was called in, it tracked a vehicle and police on the ground cornered the suspect a short time later.

Nobody was hurt during the incident.

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