Former SC sheriff's deputy suspect in Santa Fe robbery
Posted at: 12/21/2012 7:48 AM
By: The Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A former South Carolina sheriff's lieutenant is suspected of robbing a Santa Fe pharmacy at gunpoint and trying to rob a second pharmacy of the potent narcotic Oxycodone.
Police in Santa Fe say 43-year-old George William Smith is also married to a Santa Fe prosecutor.
They say Assistant District Attorney Dorie Biagianti-Smith called authorities and confronted her husband after recognizing him on a television news broadcast featuring the robberies that happened on Monday and Tuesday.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reportsSmith fled the couple's home after his wife confronted him and remained a fugitive Thursday night. District Attorney Angela Pacheco says the alleged crimes show anyone can be affected by prescription drug addiction.
Pacheco says Smith is a former sheriff's lieutenant in the Myrtle Beach area.
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