An Ohio man wanted for a robbery at a grocery store pharmacy in his home state was taken into custody by Mitchell County law enforcement last week. After receiving a tip about a suspicious couple who checked into the Pinebridge Inn in Spruce Pine and asked the clerk where they could purchase a gun, the police department checked the tag number of the vehicle driven by the couple and found that it was stolen. Further inquiry turned up the name of 51-year-old Robert P. Strausbaugh of Gahanna, Ohio and the fact that he was wanted for robbery and was considered armed and dangerous. To minimize any danger to the public, after obtaining a warrant, law enforcement waited and burst in on Strausbaugh and his companion at around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. Strausbaugh was taken into custody without incident and he has a court date scheduled in Mitchell County on January 24th. The woman with Strausbaugh was taken in by Mitchell County SafePlace and later put on a bus back to Ohio.