BANGOR, Maine — A Corinna man charged in U.S. District Court with robbing a pharmacy in Guildford 2½ years ago agreed Wednesday to be held without bail.
Michael Thompson, 26, was arrested Friday and charged with one count of pharmacy robbery. The complaint, filed in August in federal court, was sealed until Tuesday.
He did not enter a plea to the charge because he has not yet been indicted by a federal grand jury.
Thompson was taken into federal custody at the Somerset County Jail, where he was being held on state charges related to a high-speed chase this summer.
The federal court complaint said that Thompson confessed to the robbery after he was arrested following a high-speed chase July 8 that ended when he flipped a stolen truck in Ripley.
Information about charges filed in that incident was not available Wednesday due to the annual prosecutors’ conference being held in Bar Harbor. In similar cases, prosecutors have dropped state charges following federal indictments.
Thompson allegedly stole Vicodin, hydromorphine, methadone, morphine and oxycodone valued at more than $500 at knifepoint on March 10, 2012, from the Rite Aid pharmacy in Guilford, the complaint said. Thompson then allegedly fled in a U.S. Postal Service truck because a customer who realized the store was being robbed moved Thompson’s pickup truck, which had been left running.
Investigators linked Thompson to the robbery a few days after it happened but Thompson was no longer in Maine, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
If convicted, Thompson faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 on the pharmacy robbery charge.