
Dress Code Plattsburgh Ny
PLATTSBURGH — For Dan Bosley, all signs point to added safety.
["580.06"]Posters at the entrances of his stores, Cornerstone Biologic and Gifts in Rouses Point and Keesville Pharmacy in that village, advertise a austere new dress-code action activated in ablaze of Tuesday’s robbery of the Walgreens on Cornelia Artery in Plattsburgh.
“The signs acquaint barter if you are cutting a hoodie or a baseball cap and glasses, you will be asked to abolish them in my stores,” he said via buzz from his Rouses Point store.
The apparel is the aforementioned that was beat by the Walgreens robber, who handed an agent a agenda advertence he was armed with knife and ambitious able decree painkillers.
He fled the bounds with a abundance of Oxycontin and Oxycodone with an estimated artery amount of about $30,000, according to City of Plattsburgh Police.
He remained at ample as of Thursday evening.
PENDING LAW
Most armed robberies for controlled substances are for claimed use, according Selig Corman, a retired pharmacist and administrator of able diplomacy for the Pharmacists Society of the State of New York.
He is acquisitive legislation apprehension Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature may advice ascendancy decree biologic corruption and stop the growing trend of pharmacy robberies.
Corman said the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing Act would accompany above improvements to how controlled substances are prescribed.
“The aboriginal change that will appear is that all (controlled substance) prescriptions are activity to accept to be produced electronically to cut bottomward on fraud,” he said.
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By 2014, New York could be one of the aboriginal states to about-face to cyberbanking rather than cardboard prescriptions.
“The additional change is prescribers are activity to be appropriate to attending up a complete contour of a accommodating to see if they accept acclimated the drugs in the past,” Corman added.
And all physicians would accept to admission a database of the patient’s decree history afore they can appoint a agenda II, III or IV controlled substance.
He said the accretion amount of the awful addictive painkillers awash illegally makes pharmacists the ambition of attacks.
“The artery amount of Oxycontin is about $1 per milligram and anniversary bolus could accept at atomic 30 milligrams,” Corman said. “So a canteen of 100 could be account as abundant as $3,000.”
SECURITY GUARD?
Steve Moore, a pharmacist at Condo Pharmacy in Plattsburgh, is appropriately anxious about the access of angishore holdups both locally and beyond the country.
“It’s one of our better fears,” he said.
He was sad to apprehend about the robbery and anon anticipation of his adolescent pharmacists at Walgreens.
“It’s a difficult affair to hear, and we are aloof animated no one got hurt,” he said. “The pharmacists shouldn’t accept to go through that. They are active demography affliction of patients.”
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Moore is additionally anxious about how pharmacy robberies affect bodies with abiding affliction who accurately charge decree painkillers.
“Now you accept patients that are activity to be afterwards their medication,” he said.
Like Bosley, Moore said aegis is Condo’s capital priority. Yet what could they do to augment systems already in place? he wondered.
“You ask yourself, what can we do? Do we appoint a aegis guard?”
OTHER HOLDUPS
The Walgreens abomination is not the aboriginal pharmacy break-in in the area.
Last year, Joseph J. Budwick of Elizabethtown was bedevilled to 20 years in bastille for an April 2008 adulterated robbery at Hometown Pharmacy in Elizabethtown and a March 2008 break-in at Willsboro Pharmacy.
Police said man was in chase of an array of decree medication in both instances.
In 2009, a man claiming to accept a gun attempted to rob Ancestors Biologic on Healey Avenue afterwards aggressive an agent and ambitious decree painkillers.
A few months later, Plattsburgh City Police arrested a man who rammed his barter into Kinney Drugs at 52 Boynton Ave. and was bent loading added than 4,000 pills into a debris bag.
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‘REALLY SCARY’
Bosley’s advisers are instructed to ask anyone who enters cutting the banned hoodie, hat or sunglasses, which can act as a beard for a being with abominable intent, to abolish it aloft entering.
He hopes cartoon absorption to it would avert a abeyant robber.
But he has accustomed some backfire from barter who are black with his dress code.
“I am cogent my approved barter ... who appear in with baseball hats and sunglasses on to be able to abolish them, (too),” he said. “At this point, you don’t accept the appropriate to be cutting this being in my stores.”
His affair stems from anguish about the assurance of his employees.
“(They) become like family, and a blackmail adjoin them is a blackmail to your family,” he said. “It’s absolutely scary. I anguish about it every day.”
Email Miranda Orso:
morso@pressrepublican.com
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