Suspect arrested in Dayton Rite Aid robbery

Police arrested a suspect minutes after the Thursday afternoon robbery at a Rite Aid in Dayton.

An security company called 911 at 3:15 p.m. after the pharmacy at 3532 E. Third St. activated a panic alarm. A dispatcher called the pharmacy, where an employee who answered confirmed there was an emergency, saying in a low voice: “It’s a robbery, it’s a robbery, it’s a robbery … it’s in progress now.”

The employee said she did not see a weapon and quickly hung up the phone.

Police did not identify the suspect in the robbery.

However, 18-year-old Theodore C. Shavers II was arrested at 3:20 at the Rite Aid by Dayton police, according to Montgomery County Jail online records.

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Credit: Montgomery County Jail

Shavers was booked into the jail on suspicion of aggravated robbery and possessing criminal tools in addition to misdemeanor charges of driving without a valid license and for not obeying a traffic control device.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Dayton Municipal Court.

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