SEATTLE (AP) — King County prosecutors in Seattle have charged the man who wrote “Drugstore Cowboy” with first-degree robbery in yet another pharmacy heist.
James Fogle was arrested with another man Tuesday night. Prosecutors allege they demanded narcotics, then tied up employees at a pharmacy in Redmond, east of Seattle. Court papers say Fogle had a BB gun and the second man had a handgun.
Also charged with robbery Friday was 45-year-old Shannon Benn. Benn and the 73-year-old Fogle are held in the King County Jail on $500,000 bail.
Fogle has spent much of his adult life in prison, which is where he wrote “Drugstore Cowboy.” Filmmaker Gus Van Sant turned the novel into the acclaimed 1989 film starring Matt Dillon. The work was loosely based on Fogle’s life robbing pharmacies to feed his addictions.
