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Mom Calls Police; Man Jailed After CVS Drug Robbery

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By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune

Published: March 10, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - Within an hour of robbing a CVS pharmacist at knifepoint early Saturday, a 26-year-old Seminole man told his mother, who promptly turned him in, police said.

Gregory Savko demanded OxyContin and Dilaudid from the store pharmacist, said Capt. Sanfield Forseth of the Pinellas Park Police Department.

He walked into the store at 7101 Park Blvd. at 4:20 a.m. and in the pharmacy area pulled a knife, Forseth said. The pharmacist gave him 20 bottles of OxyContin, oxycodone, and hydromorphone, and the thief took off, Forseth said.

Less than 40 minutes later, or just before 5 a.m., Savko walked into the Seminole home where he lives with his mother, Forseth said. His mother heard him come in and peered through an open door into his bedroom, where she saw him spill a bunch of bottles on his bed, Forseth said.

The mother, Sharon Savko, asked him what he had done, and he told her he had just robbed a CVS, Forseth said. She promptly called 911, in part to tell authorities about her son's involvement in a robbery and in part because she thought he was at risk for overdosing, Forseth said.

Savko was charged with robbery, possession of paraphernalia, possession of oxycodone, possession of soma and resisting arrest without violence.

Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.

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