Crime & Safety

Peabody Man Sent Back to Prison for Cough Syrup Robbery

A Peabody man will be going back to jail for several years after pleading guilty to holding up a supermarket pharmacy in October.

A Peabody man is headed back to prison after recently being sentenced to six to 10 years for holding up a supermarket pharmacy last fall, according to the Salem News.

Stephen Sharry, 56, of 2 Hoover Ave., was in court recently and pleaded guilty to robbing the Hannaford pharmacy in October.

During the robbery, Sharry told the clerk on duty he had a pistol and demanded she give him Adderall and a cough syrup containing hydrocodone.

The Salem News reports this is Sharry's fourth prison sentence in the past two decades and not the first one over cough syrup.

In 2007, he held up a CVS in Peabody armed with a tube of toothpaste in his pocket, telling employees he had  a gun and demanded cough medicine.

Read the latest story on the Salem News website.


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