'I Thought This Was the End for Me,' Robbery Victim Says

An Easton couple could spend the next decade in state prison for robbing a local pharmacy to feed their drug habit, according to published reports.

Gregory and Lindsey Dalrymple, both 30, received state prison terms Monday in Northampton County Court after a judge heard from a pharmacist at the Lower Nazareth Walmart who testified about being robbed by the couple last year.

"He kept yelling I had three seconds to get the Fentanyl into the bag or I would get shot," pharmacist Scott Gordon testified, later adding: "I thought this was the end for me."

That's according to the Morning Call, which notes that a second Walmart employee testified that she still has flashbacks about the robbery on Aug. 6.

The Express-Times reports that Gregory got a four-to-12-year prison sentence, while Lindsey will spend three to 12 years in prison.

According to police, Gregory Dalrymple walked behind the pharmacy counter of the Walmart at about 8:30 p.m. Aug. 6, brandished a black handgun and demanded the pharmacist fill up a bag with Fentanyl—a narcotic painkiller that is 100 times more potent than morphine.

After the pharmacist filled the bag with two boxes of Fentanyl patches and more than 1,000 bottled oxycodone pills, Gregory Dalrymple ran out of the store and into the passenger side of an idling, gold-colored sedan.

According to Lindsey Dalrymple's arrest affidavit, she was waiting in the driver’s seat of a gold Chevy Cobalt the couple had borrowed from Gregory’s grandmother.

Lindsey drove them back to Easton, where she emptied the contents of the bag and disposed of all the packaging.

Acting on a tip, Easton police raided Gregory Dalrymple’s apartment on Aug. 8, but he was not home. He turned himself into police two weeks later.

According to court records:

• Both Gregory and Lindsey had “severe addictions to Fentanyl.” A Walmart surveillance video showed Lindsey Dalrymple at the pharmacy counter the day before the robbery trying to get a prescription filled.

• The pharmacist refused to fill the prescription because he noted an “excess number” of Fentanyl prescriptions being filled in Gregory Dalrymple’s name. Lindsey Dalrymple became irate and left the store.

• When Lindsey went home, she told Gregory how they could get more Fentanyl -- by committing a robbery. At the time, Lindsey Dalrymple was suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

• Gregory Dalrymple told police he felt sympathetic to his wife’s needs and felt responsible for her drug addiction, so he agreed to commit the robbery.