Credit: Screenshot from surveillance video

Police are searching for a man who robbed an Ohio Discount Drug Mart of over $90,000 of narcotics on Saturday, and carried out his booty in a Hello Kitty tote bag. 

Video surveillance from the Shelby, OH pharmacy shows a man brandishing a gun and climbing over the checkout counter at approximately 11:20 a.m. and demanding the drugs from an employee. She obliges, and, as giddy as a Japanese school girl, the suspect flees the scene in what employees believe was an older model white SUV. 

Witness describe the man as a 5’8″ white male in his late 20s or early 30s with brown hair and red facial hair. A man fitting this description, and also carrying a Hello Kitty bag, was spotted just before the robbery at shop in Plymouth. Nothing was taken from the first location.

Folks can watch the entire surveillance video below, courtesy of the Mansfield News Journal

Anyone with information is asked to kindly call the Shelby Police Department at 419-347-2242.


Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.