PRESTONSBURG – Prestonsburg police have traced a break-in at Rite-Aid Pharmacy in Glyn View Plaza to two men who were already in jail in Pike County on other charges.

Michael Kimmel, of Betsy Layne, and Larry Blackburn, of Gulnare, were charged in connection to the break-in with individual counts of theft.

The two men were arrested last week and jailed in Pike County on unrelated charges. Police at that time said they discovered 5,000 of what Prestonsburg police now believe were an original 10,000 pills taken from the Rite-Aid just over a week ago.

At the time of the initial investigation, officers with the Prestonsburg police said the job looked planned out ahead of time, with the suspects entering the premises while the store was closed through a hole taken out in the back of the building.

Found at the scene then was a backpack with various tools often used during break-ins, and police said they felt that must have been how Kimmel and Blackburn gained entry.

There were no other items missing from the pharmacy’s inventory, according to reports following the break-in, other than the pills, which were counted by pharmacists and then given in list form to the police to aid in their search for suspects.

That search just got a little more narrow, as far as police in Prestonsburg are concerned.

Their records have not yet been sent to Floyd County from Pike County as of press time, according to the circuit court clerk’s office in Prestonsburg.

Formal charges and other schedules for further court proceedings will be filed within the next couple of days. Until then, Kimmel and Blackburn remain in custody at the Pike County Detention Center in Pikeville.