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Pharmacy robbed by mullet- and gun-wielding thief

Meet a one man prescription for trouble.

A mullet-sporting gunman is being sought for raiding a Bay Ridge pharmacy at gunpoint on June 8 — and then apologizing for his actions.

Police said that the rail-thin renegade entered the A and V Pharmacy on Fourth Avenue at 85th Street at 7 pm with a bandanna over his nose and mouth. He flashed a pistol and gave the pharmacist a note ordering him to hand over the store’s supply of the pain reliever-turned-party-drug Oxycodone.

“This is a stick up,” the note read.

“I’m sorry, but I’ve got to have it,” the thug blurted out before grabbing two bottles of Oxycodone and three bottles of generic Xanax and racing away on a bicycle.

The thief’s desperation becomes even more evident when you realize that the store is teeming with surveillance equipment. Video cameras can be found at every corner. And when the thief came in, he couldn’t help but notice the sign pasted on the front door reading “Warning: All activities are recorded to aid in the prosecution of any crime committed against the facility.”

“That sign’s always been there,” said one store employee, who wished not to divulge his name. “We don’t try to hide it.”

The employee said he and his co-workers were startled by the lightning-fast holdup, but were left unharmed.

“Everyone’s fine,” he said. “But everyone gets rattled in a situation like this.”

Investigators have connected the thief to two similar holdups on the other side of the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island. Those thefts occurred in April, police said.

Tuesday’s raid also marks the fourth robbery in the last 12 months in which Oxycodone was swiped from pharmacies in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, said Inspector Eric Rodriguez, the commanding officer of the 68th Precinct.

“But in most cases, these guys don’t flash a weapon,” he said. “They just go behind the pharmacy counter, take what they want and run.”

Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Police say that all calls will be kept confidential.

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