A man suspected in a drugstore robbery in Edina has earned a memorable nickname thanks to a surveillance image.
In a statement titled "Buttcrack Bandit," Edina police said they are looking for a man who robbed a CVS pharmacy on York Avenue in the Southdale retail district early Thursday evening.
A surveillance photo from inside the store captured the man bending forward while stooped and exposing the upper region of his backside as he and an employee peered into a safe with drugs. Hence, the wisecrack about his buttcrack.
Other security images showed the man leaping the pharmacy counter on his way to the more lower-level pose.
Authorities say the man of undetermined ethnicity is about 6 feet tall, 210 pounds and he was wearing a maroon hoodie, gray sweatpants — a bit loose around the waist — white shoes and gloves.
A second person waited for him outside in black sedan, police added. They got away with oxycodone and hydrocodone, two powerful painkillers and favorite targets for robbery.
Anyone with information about the robbery is urged to call Edina police detective Kenna Dick at 952-826-0491.
In mid-January, two men robbed a Walgreens pharmacy in the 50th and France shopping district of Edina and made off with $8,000 in prescription drugs, mostly oxycodone. The two hopped the counter inside store at 4916 France Avenue S. and ordered employees to get out of the way as they filled plastic totes with drugs, police said.
