The King County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday (Feb. 7th) that the armed robber dubbed the “polite robber” by local media was arrested at his Top Hat home by detectives and the SWAT Team around 2pm.

“His demeanor at the time of arrest is unknown,” said Sgt. John Urquhart.

The arrest took place at a residence in the Top Hat neighborhood where the man was living. The location is not far from the Shell Station at 2805 SW Roxbury that he allegedly robbed on Saturday, February 5th about 11:20am. He was carrying what appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol during the robbery.

The video of the robbery, complete with sound, was released by the store owner has since “gone viral”:

Click here to view the embedded video.

The suspect was quickly identified from tips.

The man arrested is a convicted felon, including convictions for Forgery and Armed Robbery.

He is 65 years old.

by Gina Bourdage

After 51 years in their Normandy Park location, Manhattan Drug Store, the neighborhood drug store with “Big city selection and small town service” will soon be writing its last prescription, closing shop and taking their business in a different direction.

“We are very proud to have been entrusted with not only the filling of your prescriptions, but also with giving you advice and counseling in all matters pertaining to your pharmaceutical care. You have made us feel like family,” says a letter from the Hebert family.

While John Hebert Jr. says the change is not recession-related, he hopes to see everyone at the new location in Safeway (on SW 148th Street).

“I will be going to work at the Burien Safeway Pharmacy to help with the transition, which should go very smoothly. Our phone lines and prescription files will be transferred there at the close of business on May 7th,” Hebert said.

The current inventory of the general drug store is now available at discounted prices and fixtures will be sold after the store closes in about two months.

Manhattan Drugs, located at 17833 1st Ave South, is one of the last non-chain drugstore locations in the area.

It is not known if another business is moving into the location.

Here are some comments we found via Google Maps on this store:

Manhattan Pharmacy is your small town type drug store of days gone by. It is a quaint store which a myriad of miscellaneous items so if you can’t find what you are looking for elsewhere try Manhattan Pharmacy. They also have a first-class pharmacy and a small liquor store outlet. It is a great place to just browse. I would certainly recommend a visit to Manhattan Pharmacy — you might like it.

Manhattan Drug Store has been around for years. In addition to having a pharmacy, they offer a wide variety of items for sale, including food products, gift items, etc. Recently I needed some small regional gifts to give to some foreign visitors. I found a wide vairety of candies made in Washington–just what I was looking for–at a reasonable price.

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The event will include flu shots provided by Safeway Pharmacy for $30, as well as information from a number of medical providers.

Participating Providers include:

• Sound Options
• Gentiva
• Burien Senior Center
• Providence Elder Place
• Sound Associates
• Sizewise
• Reiki Master
• Emerald City Smoothie
• Sound Oxygen
• Evergreen Eye Center
• Response Link
• Care Management Partners
• Arthritis Foundation
• With A Little Help
• SASH
• A Place for Mom
• Family Resource Home Care
• Moss Chiropractic

For Medicaid/Medicare Part B you must bring your card.

El Dorado West is located at 1010 SW 134th Street (at Ambaum Blvd.) in Burien; their phone number is (206) 248-1975.

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Unlike a few years ago, this year there’s plenty of flu vaccine to go around.

Vaccination is recommended to protect people at high-risk for complications from the flu, including:

• Children aged six months until their 19th birthday
• Pregnant women
• People 50 years of age and older
• People, 6 months or older, with certain chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease, lung disease (including asthma), kidney disease or diabetes
• People who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities

People who live with or care for those at high risk for health complications from flu should be vaccinated as well, including:

• Household contacts of persons at high risk for complications from the flu
• Household contacts and out of home caregivers of children less than 6 months of age, who are too young to be vaccinated
• Healthcare workers

King County Health has created a website to help you find nearby flu shots (click here and enter your zip code on the right), but we’ve taken it one step further and created our own customized, interactive and regional “Places to Get Poked Map” – just click on a nearby pushpin, or use the zoom in (+) and out (-) controls on the left and you’ll see a listing of the store or pharmacy where you can get a flu shot:

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