Hilton and Shirley Bunce were charged with false reports to police and held in lieu of $5,000 bail.
A Florence Police Department SUV in a file photo. FLORENCE - A township couple who claimed they were robbed of prescription drugs at gunpoint outside their Norman Court home earlier this month were arrested and charged with making false reports, police said.
On the evening of March 18, 55-year-old Hilton J. Bunce and his wife Shirley, 52, called 911 and said they had been the victims of an armed robbery. They reported that their oxycodone painkillers, Ambien sleeping pills and enalapril blood pressure medication had been stolen, Chief Al Scully said.
Officers who investigated were suspicious enough to go to the Acme in Mount Holly where the Bunces normally had their prescriptions filled, Scully said.
Their investigation, which included interviews with both Bunces and a check of surveillance video from the Acme and elsewhere, determined the robbery did not take place, police said.
Scully said police do not know what the motive was on the part of the Bunces to falsely report the robbery, but pointed out most pharmacies will fill allegedly stolen prescriptions if a police report is provided.
Hilton and Shirley Bunce were both arrested and charged with false reports to police. They were held in lieu of $5,000 bail and taken to the Burlington County Jail pending a court date, police said.
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