ALTUS - An Altus man who told police he'd been drugging the entire day before he leaped across the counter at a local Stripes store early Tuesday morning and ran off with six crumpled one-dollar bills was jailed shortly after the incident, charged with second degree robbery.
Johnny Bishop, 29, was booked into the Jackson County Jail at 4:18 a.m.
According to an Altus Police Department incident report, police responded at 3:35 a.m. to a robbery at the Stripes store at 700 E. Broadway. The store clerk, David Jones, told police that Bishop, whom he identified after the man was arrested 10 minutes later in the 500 block of East Liveoak, entered the store, selected a pack of gum and paid for it at the counter.
Bishop then left the store and came back in, Jones told police. Bishop approached the counter to pay for another pack of gum he'd selected from the gum aisle, and when Jones opened the cash drawer Bishop leaped across the counter and grabbed for money - six $1 bills - which turned up in Bishop's front pants pocket after he was handcuffed and read his Miranda rights.
Jones stated that he was scared and thought Bishop may have been armed.
Upon search at the jail, officers found 10 Promethazine tablets, prescribed for nausea, in an inside pocket of the sweatshirt Bishop was wearing. Bishop, who has admitted the robbery, according to the incident report, told police that the pills had been given to him by a man named “Paul,” who told him they would make him feel better. Bishop also said that he and “Paul” had been doing drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, all day.
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