Boardman police nab Rite Aid robbery suspect
Staff report
BOARDMAN
Township police arrested a suspect wanted in connection with a robbery in which a man demanded that pharmacists give him a medication that treats opioid addiction.
Frank Detone, 20, of Calla Road in New Middletown was arrested Wednesday on a charge of aggravated robbery for the incident reported at a U.S. Route 224 Rite Aid on Monday.
According to a police report, officers were dispatched to the store shortly after 8:15 p.m. Monday. Two pharmacists told police that a man approached the pharmacy counter with his hood up and would not make eye contact. When one pharmacist approached the man, he handed her a note “that said something to the effect that he was an addict and wanted 10 real suboxone,” the pharmacist told police. The note also said that the man had a gun.
The pharmacists complied with the demand, and the man then “casually walked to the front of the store and exited.”
A bystander told police that he saw the man get into a car driven by a woman.
On Wednesday, township police reported going to the address associated with the suspect’s vehicle, where they spoke with Detone’s parents. They told police that Detone had been there Monday and that he “seemed very sick, possibly with flu-like symptoms,” according to the report.
Police later located Detone in Boardman. After police read him his rights, Detone showed police the trash bin on U.S. Route 224 where he disposed of clothing the night of the robbery, where he parked the vehicle and then wrote a sample note that police compared to the note used during the robbery, according to the report.
Detone was taken to the Mahoning County jail.