Two local men were arrested in connection with a weekend burglary at Community Pharmacy in Tyrone.
\nTyrone Borough Police responded to an alarm at the pharmacy at 3:53 a.m. Friday morning. Upon arrival, officers found the back door of the business open and slightly damaged when pried open, along with a bottle of Oxycodone and a pocket knife just outside the open door.
\nAfter searching the pharmacy, officers found a drawer that contained numerous bottles of Oxycontin open. When owner Dan Irvin arrived, it was reported to police that 11 bottles of Oxycodone, 3 bottles of Oxycontin, 3 bottles of Endocet and 1 bottle of Endodan were missing. A cabinet containing money was opened but none was missing.
\nWhen police viewed the surveillance video, it recorded that the two individuals entered the pharmacy at 3:49 a.m. and exited at 3:51 a.m. Police were able to identify one of the suspects by viewing the video and identified him as 27-year-old William Hampton Jr. of Tyrone.
\nBefore police could serve an arrest warrant, they learned that Hampton was in intensive care at an area hospital for a drug overdose.
\nPolice then executed a search warrant at Hampton\u2019s Sylvan Circle residence. Officers found 90 pills and information that helped them identify the other suspect as 27-year-old Jerry L. McCahan Jr. of Bellwood.
\nWhen police found McCahan, he consented to a search of his vehicle. Prior to the search, he showed police a duffel bag with approximately 500 pills and clothing, that he stated he was keeping for Hampton.
\nInside McCahan\u2019s vehicle, police also found a needle, a spoon and more pills.
\nMcCahan confessed to burglarizing Community Pharmacy with Hampton after his arrest.
\nTyrone Police reported that the street value of the stolen pills was close to $75,000 and the actual value of the medication was estimated at approximately $2,000.
\nHampton and McCahan were both arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Fred Miller and bail is set for $75,000 each.
\nHearings for both are set for Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two local men were arrested in connection with a weekend burglary at Community Pharmacy in Tyrone. Tyrone Borough Police responded to an alarm at the pharmacy at 3:53 a.m. Friday morning. Upon arrival, officers found the back door of the business open and slightly damaged when pried open, along with a bottle of Oxycodone and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}