DALLAS — A pharmacy burglary in Arlington led to a police chase across North Texas that ended in Dallas, police said.
The incident started around 5:35 a.m. Tuesday in the 8200 block of Matlock Road, where officers responded to a reported burglary at a pharmacy, according to a police news release.
Officers arrived and saw the alarm going off and the front door was smashed. Police said surveillance video captured two men who had entered the pharmacy and tried to break into a safe in an office.
The pharmacy's owner told police that she was able to announce through her security system to the burglars that she was calling police. They then ran out of the store and left the area, without being able to break into the safe, police said. The thieves did take some prescriptions, but police did not say what kind or how many.
Officers learned the suspects were driving a white Chevrolet Malibu. Around the same time Arlington police were investigating the break-in, Mansfield police were called to a pharmacy burglary in their city.
Arlington police said Mansfield officers located the same Chevrolet Malibu they were looking for. When officers tried to pull the vehicle over, the driver fled and led police on a chase.
The chase went into Dallas, where the suspects wrecked near the intersection of Crozier Street and Elsie Faye Heggins Street in southeast Dallas.
The suspects ran away from the scene and have not been arrested. More information about the case was not released.
