BELLEVUE, Wash. — Bellevue police are looking for three robbers who stole codeine from a pharmacy overnight and then tried to rob a 7-Eleven store.
Officers said they sped away in a car near the Bartell Drug store on Northeast Eighth Avenue.
The group, three men in their 20s, walked into the store about 11 p.m. Wednesday with bandannas over their faces.
The pharmacist said the men walked to the back of the store where the pharmacy counter was and showed him what looked like a Taser.
He then got on the floor while they grabbed boxes of codeine and then ran out.
Police said about an hour later and a mile away on Bel-Red Road, a man matching a description of one of the suspects in the first robbery walked into another 7-Eleven.
The clerk there said that at first, when the man demanded money, he thought he was joking.
Then the man showed a knife.
The clerk said when then the masked man saw a customer about to come into the store, he fled without anything.
Police searched the area with K-9s but came up empty.