Police in Washington State say the man who wrote “Drugstore Cowboy” has been arrested in another pharmacy robbery. James Fogle was arrested with another man Tuesday night after they allegedly tied up employees at a pharmacy in Redmond, east of Seattle. Fogle will be arraigned today on a charge of first-degree armed robbery. Fogle has spent much of his adult life in prison, which is where he wrote “Drugstore Cowboy.” Filmmaker Gus Van Sant turned the novel into a 1989 film starring Matt Dillon. The work was loosely based on Fogle’s life of robbing pharmacies to feed his addictions. A police spokesman said robbing pharmacies “is probably the only thing he knows.”
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