Suspect arrested in CVS Pharmacy robbery
April 13, 2011

A suspect in the armed robbery of a local CVS Pharmacy has been arrested. The Knoxville Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Sheriff Jimmy "J.J." Jones of the Knox County Sheriff's Office (KCSO), and Chief Allen Massengill of the Oak Ridge Police Department (ORPD), arrested Mike Rowden.

At approximately 4:00 p.m., Mike Rowden, age 27, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was arrested without incident at the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, by detectives from the KCSO, officers from the ORPD, and Agents from DEA and the FBI's Safe Safe Streets Task Force.

Rowden is facing charges state charges for armed robbery as well as federal Hobbs Act charges. He is suspected of robbing the CVS Pharmacy on Emory Road in Knoxville, Tennessee on April 9, 2011.