Caught On Camera: Dania Walgreens Robbed At Gunpoint
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DANIA BEACH (CBSMiami) -- The Broward Sheriff's Office is investigating a robbery at a Walgreens in Dania Beach that was caught on camera.
The crime happened Sunday night just after 11 o'clock at the store along Sheridan Street at SE 5th Avenue.
A man wearing a hooded sweatshirt walks into the store with a gun drawn.
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He immediately heads to the cash register and points the weapon at the clerk and a customer.
The woman who had just made her purchases backs away from the counter, leaving her bag of items behind.
The robber is seen emptying the bag and filling it with the stolen money.
Less than a minute after walking in, he's walking out, but not before coming face-to-face with Jon Pawlowski.
He was there on a quick errand to buy his wife Ramen noodles.
"I had my head buried in my phone so I wasn't really paying attention at all to what I walked into," Pawlowski told CBS 4's Lauren Pastrana. "He puts the gun right to my face and says get on the ground."
Pawlowski can be seen on video obeying the man's command.
The robber continues to hold the gun to Pawlowski's head and then grabs his iPhone before leaving the store.
Four days later, Pawlowski is still processing what he went through.
"It hasn't quite hit me yet," he said. "I actually called my psychiatrist and said 'you gotta see me the next day.'"
Believe it or not, Pawlowski says he returned to this same Walgreens the very next night.
"It was important to me, that I'm not going to change what I do because of some guy who just happened to have me in the right place at the right time," Pawlowski said.
If you recognize the man in the surveillance video, call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.
