Kansas City, Kansas

From the January 20, 2010 Kansas City Star:

A man who put a container on a pharmacy counter, claimed it was a bomb and demanded prescription drugs left after the pharmacist wielded a shotgun.

The pharmacist at the Kansas City, Kan., pharmacy at 4501 Rainbow Blvd. fired at the would-be robber as he drove off in a car, police said.

It is not know if the robber or his car was hit in the incident about 11:30 a.m., they said. The bomb squad soon determined that the package was not a bomb.

The crime is similar to another incident Jan. 4 in Overland Park where a robber put a clock taped to a box on a pharmacy counter, said it was a bomb and left with a small amount of drugs.

He drove an early 2000 model, four-door Ford Taurus that was either blue or gray with Johnson County tags.

Shotgun fire might have damaged the car’s right rear quarter panel, they said.