A masked man robbing multiple Florida pharmacies at gunpoint turned out to be a former state highway patrol trooper, federal prosecutors said.
A few weeks before the first robbery, Jesse Rance Moore, 46, of Bell, searched on Google what medications get stolen from pharmacies and looked up pharmacy store hours, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.
“Do drug stores get robbed in florida,” he also googled on his phone, prosecutors said.
Moore landed on the FBI’s radar after the North Florida Pharmacy of Fort White was robbed on Jan. 13, 2022, according to prosecutors.
Moore walked in the store that day with a black handgun while wearing a realistic, human face mask and demanded oxycodone, OxyContin, and Percocet — all painkillers, prosecutors said.
He stole the controlled substances and fled southbound on U.S. Highway 27, according to the attorney’s office.
This marked his fourth robbery in Columbia County – and the second time he robbed the same North Florida Pharmacy of Fort White, according to the attorney’s office.