DOHA: A lower criminal court is hearing a case involving two young men accused of threatening an employee of a hospital’s pharmacy to steal sedatives.
The staffer told police that the duo used to visit him regularly and pressure him to sell them sedatives.
On the day of the incident, the duo entered the pharmacy after midnight and one of them held the employee from behind and pressed something sharp on the back of his neck.
He asked the staffer not to move as he said he was holding a weapon on his neck.
The employee said he became motionless.
The other accused went to a drawer where the sedatives were kept and pocketed several strips and the duo left.
A police complaint was filed and the two were caught following a hunt and charged with burglary.
It emerged that the duo once used a stolen seal of a hospital doctor, a heart specialist, to write a prescription for sedatives and buy them from this pharmacy.
The doctor’s name was engraved on the seal stamped on the prescription but there was no signature. Suspecting foul play, the pharmacist called the doctor.
He came to the pharmacy but by that time the duo had disappeared.
The employee who lodged the complaint about burglary said he was not aware what kind of weapon the accused had pointed at his neck and whether it was a weapon.
He said one accused told him that his accomplice was in a bad mental state and could not live without sedatives.
While stealing the strips, the accused told the pharmacist that they wouldn’t injure or harm him as they only wanted the sedatives.
Yesterday, a lieutenant from the Criminal Investigation Department deposed as a witness.
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