BURKE, Va.
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Police in Fairfax County are searching for a pharmacy robber who disguises himself in a Spiderman mask.
The robber was caught on surveillance cameras Monday afternoon at a Giant grocery store in Burke robbing the pharmacy inside the store.
"(He) walks through the entire store with the mask on, waits at the pharmacy," said Officer Camille Neville of the Fairfax County Police Department.
Wearing baseball batting gloves, a sweatshirt and shorts, police said the masked thief waited for one of the two store pharmacists to leave then crouched behind the counter and ordered another pharmacist to open the vault and hand over oxycontin.
Police said the robber got away with an undisclosed amount of the drug.
"There's no weapon seen, he implied and made statements to make the pharmacist believe there was a weapon involved," said Neville.
Officials said there are security cameras positioned outside the Giant and the pharmacy is in the back of the store, but no one got a good look at the robber because he had the Spiderman mask on the entire time.
The pharmacists involved in the robbery said they were shaken by the incident but were back to work on Tuesday.
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