Update: King County prosecutors on Feb. 11 charged John Martin Kessler, 62 years old and a customer at the pharmacy for about a decade, with this robbery. The court papers also state that on Feb. 8, a day before this robbery, he tried but failed to rob the Chase Bank at 1501 Fourth Ave. According to the documents, Kessler stated the reason for the crimes is his addiction to crack cocaine.
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This photograph, taken by a neighbor two days ago in the 1200 block of Northeast 90th Street, actually shows police arresting the man suspected of robbing the Maple Leaf Pharmacy a few minutes earlier.
A commenter on our original post assumed it was the man who had burglarized his home earlier that day.
But police say it’s the suspect who they believe robbed the pharmacy with a knife at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9. In court Thursday his bail was set at $25,000, the King County Prosecutor’s office said.
The pharmacy was robbed at gunpoint in December 2009. Just last month the gunman was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
