A reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person who attempted to rob a local pharmacy of OxyContin earlier this week.

Tuesday morning at approximately 10:56, someone wielding a sawed-off shotgun entered Rudy’s Pharmacy at the corner of Lee Avenue and 18th Street. The person wore a bag to cover his face and was wearing a coat. He demanded that the pharmacist give him OxyContin, but the pharmacist refused and the suspect ran from the drugstore. Detectives aren’t sure if he ran away on foot or had someone in a vehicle waiting for him.

“We have two or three angles we’re working on and we’ve been getting a lot of calls,” said Bryan Cavenaugh, a detective at the Tifton Police Department.

A similar robbery occurred in Moultrie at the end of June. In that case, a man entered the Medicine Shoppe on 31st Avenue Southeast at 10:30 one morning and pulled a handgun on employees. He demanded the pharmacy employees give him all of the store’s oxycodone and, according to a story printed in the Moultrie Observer, the store’s employees complied with the man’s demand. He took all of the medication and fled from the store. No arrest has been made in that case.

Cavenaugh and other detectives working on the Tifton case are working with Moultrie investigators to see if there is a connection between the two.

“We are still working with the victims in the Moultrie case,” Cavenaugh said Friday.

Anyone with information is urged to call the TPD at 382-4321.