Oregon City Police Charge Two With Robbing Rite Aid Pharmacy

OREGON CITY, OR – Two young men woke up in Clackamas County Jail on Friday morning after Oregon City Police charged them with robbery. Austin Keever-Nyberg, 21, and 19-year-old Jacob Petersen were arrested in the parking lot of the Oregon City Shopping Center.

Police were called there just after 9 p.m. on Thursday after getting a report of an armed robbery.

They say that Keever-Nyberg walked to the pharmacy, jumped the counter, knife in hand, and ordered employees to the ground.

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Police say that he then stole medication and fled, threatening another employee with his knife as he left.

Officers set up a perimeter and called in a K9 team. As this was happening, police say that Keever-Nyberg returned to the shopping center and jumped into a car driven by Petersen.

They tried to leave the shopping center but, police say, were stopped by officers and arrested without incident.

This is not Keever-Nyberg's brush with the law.

Last month, he was arrested after police say that he drove a truck into a group of pedestrians in northeast Portland, an incident that was caught on video.