Sun Photo by Jim Feltman
Greeneville police escorted an armed robbery suspect from the Medicine Shoppe pharmacy at 910-A Tusculum Boulevard shortly after 11 a.m. Friday. Officers and witnesses said the suspect pointed a gun at employees and demanded drugs and money. Officer Tim Hartman arrived on the scene just as the suspect was trying to leave, forced her to drop her gun and then surrender. The suspect, Samantha Jo Arwood of Greeneville, has been charged with aggravated robbery.
A woman armed with a loaded 9-mm semi-automatic handgun held a
clerk at gunpoint on Friday at the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy on Tusculum Boulevard and demanded drugs
and cash, according to Greeneville Police Officer Tim Hartman and the clerk herself.
