SEATTLE, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A U.S. author whose novel "Drugstore Cowboy" was made into a film starring Matt Dillon pleaded guilty to a crime at the center of his story, drugstore robbery.
James Fogle -- whose autobiographical novel about drug addicts supporting their habit by robbing pharmacies and hospitals as they traveled across the U.S. Pacific Northwest -- pleaded guilty in King County Superior Court in Seattle Wednesday to first-degree robbery with a firearm. He was accused of robbing a Redmond, Wash., drugstore May 25, 2010.