Burglars stole $1 million in drugs from Euless pharmacy, owners say

The owners of Super Value Pharmacy rang in the new year with a trashed business missing $1 million worth of pharmaceuticals.

General Manager Jayne Laughbaum said the pharmacy at 720 N. Industrial Boulevard was broken into in the early hours of Dec. 31. The burglars took, “highly-marketable drugs with a street value of up to one million dollars,” she said.

Surveillance footage shows men clad in black crawling and trying to break into a safe. Spilled pill bottles and cough syrup can be seen in the footage, and what appears to be a safe with the side cut out.

“We’ve had break-ins before, but this one was the most costly,” Laughbaum wrote in an email.

She said there appeared to be two men inside with “at least one lookout.”

Owners placed a banner outside the pharmacy that read, “$10,000 reward for the arrest & conviction for the break-in on New Years Eve between 4am-7am.”

Euless police declined to comment about theft, saying that the investigation is “active and ongoing.”

Police asked the pharmacy owners to take down the banner.

This story was originally published January 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM with the headline "Burglars stole $1 million in drugs from Euless pharmacy, owners say."