August 2, 2008
Gary Davidson
Public Information Officer

DEPUTIES CHARGE DEBARY MAN WITH TWO PHARMACY ROBBERIES

Anthony Baiardo, age 42, who was arrested Thursday night and charged by the DeLand Police Department with robbing a pharmacy in DeLand, also is a suspect in two additional pharmacy robberies being investigated by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Those robberies occurred on June 15 at a Walgreens in DeBary and on July 7 at Saxon Medical Pharmacy near Orange City.

Late Friday afternoon, Sheriff’s investigator Charles Lee charged Baiardo in both robberies. The criminal charges are as follows:

Walgreens robbery
-armed robbery
-grand theft
-trafficking in Oxycodone

 Saxon Medical Pharmacy robbery
-armed robbery
-kidnapping
-grand theft
-trafficking in Oxycodone 

Baiardo remains in custody at the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach. Links to previous news releases on these two robberies are as follows:
http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/2008PressReleases/June/080118.htm
http://www.volusia.org/sheriff/press/080129.htm