A man with a note demanding drugs at a local pharmacy has ended with several people in custody in Chattanooga who are suspects in two other robberies.

On Monday evening, East Ridge police charged 20-year-old Nathan Lebron Odum, of a Water Street address in Chattanooga, with Aggravated Robbery.

According to a press release from the East Ridge Police Department, officers were dispatched to the Rapid Rx Pharmacy at 4335 Ringgold Road at 10:18 a.m. Monday morning on a report of an attempted armed robbery. The suspect allegedly approached the clerk and handed her a note demanding an assortment of drugs. The suspect claimed he had a gun and was prepared to use it. According to a police report, the clerk began trying to talk the man out of robbing her, and he finally got tired and left.

According to a report, ERPD officers reviewed footage from a security camera across the street from the drug store and could see a man leaving the area in a gold Chevy Impala traveling north on Moore Road. This information was relayed to surrounding agencies. Shortly thereafter, East Ridge police were notified that two additional robberies had just occurred in Chattanooga and the suspect matched the description of the man at Rapid Rx. 

 A witness at one of the Chattanooga robberies was able to get a tag number of the suspects’ Chevy. Just before noon on Monday, East Ridge police were notified that Chattanooga police had attempted to stop the Chevy and it fled. The vehicle, the report states, was found abandoned near Water Street in Chattanooga. 

While officers were on the scene at Water Street CPD received a 911 call from a home on the road stating that a man had broken into a woman’s home and he was still inside the residence. The report states that officers found the man, later identified as Odom, inside the house. CPD detectives found the note that was used in the attempted robbery of Rapid Rx inside the Chevy, the report states.