Police are searching for a suspect who held up a St. Catharines pharmacy.
Officers were called to Tom's Pharmacy on Bunting Road just before 7:30 last night, after a man entered the store, armed with a weapon and demanded narcotics.
He fled after staff handed over some prescription meds.
Police say he was last seen getting into a grey four door vehicle on Berkley Drive.
The suspect is described around 30 years of age, 5 foot 9 inches tall, with a pock marked complexion, clean shaven, wearing a white baseball hat and black hoodie
This is the second, armed pharmacy robbery in Niagara this week.
Two men wearing balaclavas entered the Guardian Pharmacy on Main Street in Grimsby with weapons Sunday morning.
The pair fled after staff handed over some narcotics.
The Niagara Health System says the number of emergency room visits because of opiod overdoses has increased 65 per cent over the same time last year.