Cobb Police are looking for a man who held up a Walgreens pharmacy in Kennesaw Tuesday evening and ran off with an undisclosed amount of drugs and cash.

An man armed with a handgun entered the business at 4075 Cherokee Street at 8:14 p.m., leaped over the counter and demanded prescription drugs and money from two employees. He fled on foot.

He was described as a white male with slim build, 5 feet 10 inches tall, with bushy brown hair and a mustache. The suspect wore a gray hooded sweatshirt with jeans and white high-top tennis shoes.

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