LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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By SHANNON HAUGLAND
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Sitka police are asking for help identifying the person who broke into Harry Race Pharmacy Wednesday night and stole a box of empty insulin syringes.
The man was seen on the store’s surveillance video breaking the glass of the drug store’s rear door around 11:05 p.m. He left nine minutes later, according to the recording.
“The suspect appears to have taken a box of 6mm BD Insulin Syringes,” police said.
Lt. Lance Ewers added that the suspect tried but was unable to break into the drug store’s narcotics safes.
The burglary was discovered at 6:30 a.m. today when a passerby noticed the door had been smashed and called police.
Police reviewed the surveillance video and released a description of the suspect as an average-build, 5-foot-10 male wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt with a second light gray hooded sweatshirt on top of the first, black pants and tennis shoes. He was wearing a dark-colored ski mask or balaclava, officers said.
Police said the suspect will have a laceration of some type on his hand or finger area, most likely on the right hand.
Ewers said it would be best for the suspect to turn himself in rather than wait for the police to track him down.
“This is an extremely solvable case,” Ewers said. “We will find out who did this. In today’s world with DNA technology it will take a little time, but we will find out who is responsible.”
Ewers said he believes the suspect has a chemical dependency problem, based on the items stolen. If that’s the case, there is help available if the subject “self-reports,” Ewers said.
In his interview with the Sentinel the police lieutenant addressed himself to the suspect:
“Let us help you through your crisis, and help you get counseling and into a rehab program,” Ewers said. “It’s clearly out of control if you are breaking into a pharmacy.”
Syringes like the ones stolen may be used to inject any of a number of abused substances, including heroin.
“Police are seeing more and more people addicted to heroin in Sitka and around Southeast,” Ewers said.
Anyone with any information may call the police department at 747-3245, or the crime line, 747-8980. Calls to the crime line may be made anonymously – the calls are not recorded and there is no caller ID, police said.
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Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.