ROCK HILL, S.C.,None — Alton Hyatt remembers coming in to work at his family's pharmacy in the summer of 2009.
Every time he reached the door, he wasn't sure what he'd find waiting for him.
"You just never knew. It was an eerie feeling walking inside the store," Hyatt said.
In June 2009, Good's Pharmacy on Ebenezer Road in Rock Hill was the victim of a string of violent, destructive break-ins.
It was the first time the family-owned shop had seen any violent crime since it opened in the early 1960s. Surveillance video showed two teenage boys smashing windows with a hammer, kicking in doors and cutting the power to the small building at the circuit breaker.
Each burglary happened around the same time in the morning, and the teens kept coming back, hitting the store on June 4, June 8 and June 26.
They took cash, drugs and did thousands of dollars worth of damage every time.
"Every night we'd go home and wonder if this was the night they were going to come back," Hyatt said.
The drugs they took were powerful, highly-addictive prescription drugs. In all, in three break-ins they stole nearly $4,000 worth of Oxycodone, Hydrocodone methadone, Percocet, Ritalin, morphine and other drugs.
The crimes shocked the community, where the Hyatts are well-known for their family-owned business.
Arrests were made days after the third break-in, when 18-year-old Ryan Bean was stopped for speeding in Lowell. In the car, police found bottles of pills that were later determined to be the ones stolen from the pharmacy in Rock Hill.
A few days later, another police officer was watching the story on Eyewitness News. He recognized the teens and helped solve the case.
Rock Hill police charged bean and 19-year-old Jonathan Moore with multiple charges. Bean was charged with two of the break-ins at Good's Pharmacy. Moore was charged with all three. Surveillance video captured an image of a third suspect who was never identified.
On Friday, family members of both suspects spoke out about them, asking for leniency from the court. Moore and Bean have both already served some time in prison in North Carolina on drug-trafficking charges. Those charges are related to the drugs they took from the pharmacy in Rock Hill.
Their parents told the judge they both are out of jail, attending college classes in Charlotte and trying to make something of their lives. Neither Moore nor Bean have any criminal record.
Both men pleaded guilty to all charges and were sentenced to six years in prison under the Youthful Offender Act. That means they'll serve time in a prison that houses inmates who are between 17 and 25 years old.
They could be eligible for early release based on their behavior.
The Hyatt family did not speak out in court, but told Eyewitness News that they're relieved that the ordeal is over.
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