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Caught on Tape: Couple Arrested in Staged Hostage-Taking Stickup at CVS
posted 05/21/09
5:57 pm
You can see the incident play out on the store's surveillance video. The woman at the pharmacy counter suddenly has a gun pointed at her head by a man who demands Oxycotin -- or else. The woman cries and begs for the pharmacist to hand over the drugs, but Manassas Police say she was in on it.
They say the store surveillance video reveals the woman was a co-conspirator, not an innocent customer, because when the pharmacist hands over the drugs, the two appear to take off together.
Manassas police said they identified the two suspect's with the public's help. U.S. Marshals arrested Joshua Allen Cook, 19, and Jennifer Lynn Mauck, 25, Wednesday night.
Chris Kiser was home when the U.S. Marshals came looking for his cousin Joshua.
"The chased him through the houses and everything," Kiser recalled. "They finally got him, though, and about twenty minutes later they got the other girl, his girlfriend."
Joshua's sister Amanda says her brother isn't part of a Bonnie and Clyde-style crime team. She says there's room to doubt what's on the surveillance video.
"I don't think it looked like them," she said. "But a lot of people said . . . it looks like them."
Customers who shop where the robbery took place say the elaborate ruse of a hostage taking is a sign of desperation.
"I think they probably it saw a movie somewhere along the line and they tried to pull it off here," said Jimmy Wells.
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"I think people are just trying to survive," added Joyce Virgil. "It's unfortunate they need pain medication, though."
Joshua's family says drugs may not have been the only dangerous influence in his life.
"I told him all the time, just leave that girl alone, she's going to get him in trouble -- and look what happened," Kiser said.
Both defendants are charged with armed robbery and using a gun in the commission of a felony. Both are being held without bond.
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