PARIS – An investigation continues into Friday night’s strong-arm robbery at Rite Aid Pharmacy on Main Street, but police believe they have their man. Or rather, the Androscoggin County jail has its man.
The investigating officer, Paris police Sgt. Michael Dailey, said Tuesday afternoon that he had an arrest warrant issued Monday for Robert T. Judd, 26, charging him with armed robbery in connection with the Rite Aid incident.
“I’m confident that we have cleared everything up as far as the actual robbery with his arrest,” Dailey said.
The warrant, he added, would allow Judd to be held for Oxford County “when Androscoggin County was done with him.”
Bail had yet to be set on the Oxford County warrant, South Paris District Court Clerk Laura Nokes said Tuesday.
Lewiston police arrested Judd on Sunday in Auburn and charged with aggravated trafficking in Schedule W drugs, a Class A offense; trafficking in prison contraband; and two warrants alleging nonpayment of fines.
Unable to make bail, which was set at $25,900 cash, Judd remained behind bars at Androscoggin County jail as of Tuesday afternoon, a jail officer said.
Dailey said that Judd’s last known address was 173 Fayette Road, Fayette.
“He has lived in Livermore Falls, and has been moving back and forth in the Auburn area,” Dailey said.
As for the Rite Aid armed robbery, a Paris police bulletin stated that it occurred at 8 p.m. Friday.
“A male subject walked into the store, and displayed a black semiautomatic handgun, and made off with a large quantity of OxyContin of various dosages,” the bulletin stated.
During the incident, a woman employee was struck by the assailant’s gun, but was not injured.
Dailey said Lewiston and Auburn police, with assistance from the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and Violent Crimes Task Force, had linked Judd to a “very real looking” pellet gun said to have been used in the robbery.
Dailey added that police had also recovered 99 percent of the stolen pills.
He said he is continuing to follow leads in the case, and doing follow-up investigative work “to see if it branches into something further.”
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