A Kanawha circuit judge on Thursday refused to lower the bond of a former CVS pharmacy manager charged with robbery.
Kellie Cook, 41, of Dunbar, who was a manager at the pharmacy on Oakwood Road in Charleston, was arrested and charged last month with two counts of second-degree robbery.
Cook allegedly told Charles "Eddie" Jacobs about the number of prescription pills in the store and the dates the pills were delivered to the pharmacy. Jacobs is accused of robbing four CVS pharmacies in the area.
To get out of jail, Cook has to post 10 percent of the $100,000 bond set by a magistrate. Circuit Judge Charles King refused to lower it on Thursday.
Cook's attorney, Richard Holicker, a deputy Kanawha public defender, told the judge his client could post only about $100.
Jacobs, 31, is accused of robbing the CVS stores, including the Oakwood store twice, as well as the store on Charleston's East End, in Dunbar and in Teays Valley. Police spent months looking for a suspect. In each robbery, a masked man entered the store and demanded pills at gunpoint.
The pair was caught after CVS employees put GPS monitoring systems in prescription pain pill bottles.
Assistant Kanawha prosecutor Maryclaire Akers objected to lowering Cook's bond. She told the judge that Cook and Jacobs met in an Internet chat room and discussed robbing the store.