One was armed with a handgun and the second man “had his hand in his pocket,” Hobbs said. “Don’t know if he actually had a gun, or whether he was faking that he had one.”
The men forced an employee into the pharmacy area at the back of the store, according to Hobbs.
The robbers took six or seven 10- to 12-ounce bottles of the syrup, he said.
While Hobbs couldn’t say for certain what the robbers intended to do with the drug, he said that a store employee “was saying that he’s heard that some hip-hop music, rap songs have that particular ingredient mentioned.”
Purple drank is confirmed or suspected to have caused the deaths of several rap and hip-hop musicians, including DJ Screw, Big Moe and Pimp C.
Several NFL players have been arrested in recent years for possession of codeine or cough syrup for use in making the drink.
Codeine was also one of the controlled substances that California authorities claimed was in the possession of Atlanta-based rapper and actor T.I. when he was arrested in early September in Los Angeles.
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