Youth accused of stealing drug from pharmacy

A 22-year-old Emirati employee, YMA, allegedly entered a pharmacy and stole a number of boxes of the drug Tramadol and ran away, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

The pharmacy’s staff caught him before he left the pharmacy and could retrieve all boxes except for one before he fled.

DK, Indian, pharmacist testified that on December 27, at around 5.30pm the accused entered the pharmacy and submitted to him a prescription of a clinic. The prescription was for a cough syrup and the age of the patient was mentioned as 48.

“As the customer looked younger than 48, I asked him for an ID. He said he does not carry an ID, so I refused to give him the medicine. He rushed inside the pharmacy and took Tramadol boxes and attempted to run away. I ran after him and another staff came down from the upper floor and caught him with me. We could retrieve the boxes except for one which contained 100 tablets and of Dh26 value,” testified the pharmacist.

“While resisting us his ‘ghutra’ and the cap fell down underneath. I sustained bruises. He was a regular customer and I used to sell him medicine against prescriptions,” he testified.

Police reached the accused by testing the biological traces on the ghutra and the cap underneath. The DNA test matched with that of YMA which was saved in the police records.

Finger prints removed from the pharmacy matched those saved in the police records and were those of YMA. The pharmacist could not recognise the accused with 100 per cent accuracy when shown to him in an identification parade. “He looked very much like the customer,” he said.

The court will reconvene on September 10.
 

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