A 26-year-old Baltimore man was sentenced to eight and a half years in federal prison Friday for using a gun to rob a Carroll County pharmacy of prescription narcotics, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced.
Joseph Wagner pointed a handgun into the face of a Finksburg Pharmacy employee on Sept. 30, 2009, and "and threatened to kill her if she moved," prosecutors said in a statement. A conspirator then demanded drugs, including Ocycontin, Xanax and Percocet, and Wagner bound two employees hands and feet with zip ties, the statement said, while a third employee hid in a back room and called 911.
Wagner and the conspirator were arrested one street over, and 75 pill bottles were later recovered from their car, along with zip ties, duct tape, and nearly $1,600. Prosecutors said charges against the conspirator were pending.