Arian L. Craig
HANCOCK COUNTY — One of the two men involved in an armed robbery of the CVS in Greenfield in December, 2021 had his case closed when a plea agreement was accepted by Magistrate Cody Coombs in Hancock County Superior Court 1 last week.
Arian L. Craig, 24, Indianapolis, ended up pleading guilty to two of four charges and was given an eight-year term for each crime with the sentences to run concurrently. As part of the plea deal, a Level 5 felony charge of robbery and a Class A misdemeanor charge of resisting law enforcement were dismissed.
The plea agreement finds Craig guilty of a Level 4 felony count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon and guilty of a Level 4 felony count of a pharmacy robbery. The deal calls for Craig to be sentenced to eight years for each crime with five years to be executed and three years suspended to probation. Two of those years are to be served on home detention as a condition of the probation.
Craig and another Indianapolis man, Jaron K. Griffin, 21, were arrested after officials say they robbed the CVS Pharmacy at 1233 N. State St. just after 2 a.m. Dec. 28, 2021.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the two men entered the CVS Pharmacy and demanded one of the people working in the store to open the safe. The affidavit states one of the robbers grabbed one of the workers by her arms and then went through her pockets looking for a combination to the safe. The employee told the two the safe was on a timer and the employees did not have the combination.
A second employee working in the pharmacy said the robbers told them they were not there to hurt them but wanted oxycodone. That’s when one of the men started grabbing prescriptions that had been prepared for others, the affidavit said.
After a 911 call was made, officers from the Greenfield Police Department quickly spotted the suspect’s car and briefly chased it as it left the area. The two men tried to flee after crashing their car near the roundabout at McKenzie Road and Broadway Street, but police quickly captured them.
No one inside the store was injured during the robbery. A quantity of medication was found inside the suspects’ vehicle, police said in the affidavit.
Court records show Griffin has also entered into a plea agreement. He is slated to be sentenced Wednesday, August 17 in Hancock County Superior Court 1. He is facing a Level 4 felony count of pharmacy robbery, a Level 5 felony count of robbery and a Class A misdemeanor count of resisting law enforcement.
