Calm, Deliberate Robber Hits Dacula CVS Store

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A man calmly walked into and robbed a Dacula-area store at gunpoint last weekend in a carefully planned crime with a possible connection to another.

Police are looking for the suspect in the early morning robbery at the CVS Pharmacy on Jim Moore Road at Auburn Road. The incident happened just after the store opened at 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 7.

The suspect, described as a black male in his late 20’s, allegedly made the two employees open a safe and cash drawers before they were left facedown on the floor in the ladies bathroom.

According to the Gwinnett Police incident report, the man was masked and wearing a hoodie when he walked into the store and up to the front counter, where one of the employees was standing.

“He put the gun up in front of his face and said, ‘Shhh,’” according to the woman.

The suspect told both employees to go with him to the office in the back of the store.

While in the office, the suspect forced the women to open the safe and stuff the cash into a CVS tote bag, while he kept an eye on the front of the store.

A customer came into the store during this time. The suspect told one of the woman to serve the customer, but not let on what what was happening, which she obliged.

After that, the suspect had the employees empty the cash registers, then forced them into the bathroom, according to the incident report. He had left by the time the employees came out.

The employees said the suspect was calm and deliberate during the robbery. He didn’t touch anything and was careful to keep his back to surveillance cameras.

The manager, who arrived at the store later, told police that the robbery was similar to one at a CVS location at Hamilton Mill, in which the crime was carried out almost the exact same way. In that robbery, it also was a lone suspect who struck just after the store opened on a Saturday and forced the employees to lie down in another room.

“The suspect in today’s incident appears to have planned and scouted this location,” the reporting officer wrote in the incident report. “He was familiar with the store’s practices and locations of safes, deposits and that the store would be minimally staffed on a Saturday morning. ... He wore gloves and was conscious not to touch anything inside.”

The suspect got away with between $2,500 and $3,000, according to the police report.

If is not known if the suspect left on foot or in a vehicle.

Police are continuing the investigation.