Overview
- CCTV shows four suspects—three men and a woman—entering the botica and coordinating the theft.
- One suspect engaged the pharmacist with a complaint of back pain and product requests while accomplices opened the display, placing items into a black bag.
- Another jangled a keychain to mask noise as the case was apparently opened with a key-like object, and the group then pretended to abandon the purchase.
- The decoy asked if the store accepted U.S. dollars before leaving, and staff later discovered losses exceeding S/6,000 in dermatological products.
- Workers at other San Miguel pharmacies report similar distraction thefts, and a police complaint was filed with no arrests reported.