Water that had risen six feet high hadn’t completely drained away from the streets of Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., yet looters had already rifled through the remains of vulnerable shops on Mermaid Avenue.
At about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, workers arrived at Mega Aid Pharmacy to find that not only had Hurricane Sandy obliterated the building’s interior the night before, but thieves had broken in and gone through more than 10,000 pharmaceutical items. Most of the stolen goods were prescription meds.
“The water went away and these people started walking down the streets and just robbed stores,” a frustrated worker at the pharmacy, who wished to remain anonymous, told HuffPost Crime.
Pill bottles were scattered — and others stolen — after looting at this pharmacy on Mermaid Avenue near 32nd St. in Brooklyn, Tuesday, Oct. 30. The crime came just hours after Hurricane Sandy struck the New York City area, devastating Coney Island and many other neighborhoods.
Oh thank goodness.For a minute there I thought it was for real.
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