That's according to court records filed Friday in Missoula County Justice Court, which accuse the 26-year-old man of committing a crime identical to the one for which a judge sentenced him exactly one year ago.
According to the document, Bagley bored a hole through the same pharmacy drywall, picked fastidiously through the same narcotic pill bottles, and when he emerged, with pockets bulging, he stood facing the same blue-clad police officers.
Early Thursday morning, Missoula police officers responded to a burglary alarm at Garden City Pharmacy on South Reserve Street. Someone had “smashed a large hole” through the wall, records state, but escaped from the building before police could arrive. Nothing was reported missing inside.
Officer Matt Kazinsky recalled investigating a similar break-in attempt a couple years earlier at another pharmacy. So, believing that the unsuccessful burglary attempt at Garden City Pharmacy may have driven his suspect elsewhere, he decided to make a quick pass by SavMor Drug.
Sure enough, while driving through the store's parking lot on South Third Street West, Kazinsky spotted a person dressed in dark clothing walking around behind the pharmacy counter. He called for backup, then stood and watched the suspect through the window.
For about 15 minutes, Kazinsky watched the person sort through a cabinet stocked with pharmaceutical drugs, reading labels and putting some pill bottles back in place, while pocketing others - oxycodone, methadone, clonazepam, fentanyl patches.
With the building surrounded, it wasn't long before the suspect, identified as Andrew Bagley, walked through a back exit and into police custody.
The previous May, Bagley burglarized the same pharmacy by throwing a rock through the store's glass entrance, climbing through some ceiling tiles to access a locked drug-storage area, then cleaning out an entire supply of oxycodone.
After spending more than a year in jail and in a pre-release center in Butte - time spent sober, by every account - Bagley returned to Missoula to live under the DOC's Intensive Supervision Program, working as a cook and living on his own in the community, albeit on probation.
At the time of his most recent arrest, Bagley was living in a house just one block away from SavMor pharmacy.
He remains jailed on a no-bail hold for violating his probation, and another $50,000 bail for the most recent alleged crime. He is charged with burglary and drug possession, both felonies.
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DOUG wrote on Nov 23, 2008 4:50 PM:
" if he would have been put into rehab and training in the first place odds are good we would have never have heard his name again.but no go ahead he repeated the same crime so we should repeat our's that way in two years the police won't have to look for him. they can just wait on 3rd for him to walk out the door next time "
tom wrote on Nov 22, 2008 9:55 PM: