Police said the same man who robbed a Bartholomew County pharmacy in January robbed a Grant County pharmacy last month.

The most recent robbery took place at Upland, Ind., around ten miles southeast of Marion, on Feb. 12. Police said a man with a small-caliber wooden-gripped revolver went into the Upland Health Care Pharmacy, demanded and got prescription narcotics, and escaped in a car he stole from employee, and later abandoned a few blocks away. Police think the man went into the pharmacy around 42 minutes before the robbery, left and then returned.

The previous robbery believed to have been by the same man was Jan. 10 in Columbus, Ind.

Police described the robber as a clean shaven white male in his late 40’s or early 50’s, 5’5” tall and weighing 240 pounds. For the Upland robbery he was wearing a dark blue stocking cap, a mid-length faded blue jean jacket with a light gray hooded sweatshirt underneath, faded blue jean pants and white tennis shoes with a blue stripe.

Anyone with information on either robbery is asked to call State Police Detective Rob Ricks at 1-800-761-2985.