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Ice Cream! Bring the kids?
The Lickety Split ice cream truck on Staten Island was dishing out more than single-dips – it was selling oxycodone pills to junkies for $20 a pop.
That’s what prosecutors said Thursday as they announced the indictment of 31 members of a “diabolic” black-market pill-pushing ring that racked up $1 million sales in a year.
“My kids bought ice cream every day last summer. It’s horrible, scary, that they were moving drugs. This is a close-knit community. We never suspected.” Grownup addicts sat in their cars waiting for local kids to finish getting their treats, then lined up for their painkillers – a generic version of the powerful and highly addictive OxyContin narcotic pain reliever.
Ringleaders Louis Scala, 29, and Joseph Zaffuto, 39, got hundreds of blank prescriptions from co-defendant Nancy Wilkins, 40, the office manager for an unsuspecting Manhattan orthopedic surgeon, officials said. They forged them and recruited friends, relatives and neighbors to be “runners” who went to mom-and-pop pharmacies to fill the prescriptions.
Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the 42,755 pills the ring sold are just a fraction of the black market. “We are equating this now to the epidemic that we saw when crack cocaine was first introduced in New York City,” he warned.
You’d think they had a smart racket. Nah — the ring was uncovered when a runner was arrested for holding up pharmacies.
HA. There was a company that did this in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
I’m not gonna lickety anything from that truck!
[It wasn’t easy finding an appropriate pic. Ed.]
So you mean that alongside all the chemical laden unhealthy junk they were selling drugs as well? Shocking
Its just that the drugs weren’t FDA (Monsanto, Cargill, ADM) approved.
I just thought of something fierce.
Lets talk Monsanto into thinking that the best and most salable pot is grown in lots and lots of “Round up Ready™” soil.
Lets start to use lobbying efforts for us for a change.
This was happening in the 1960s/70s in my white bread neighborhood. Same stuff, different truck.
BTW I have MS and tetra-hydra-canabinoids are FDA approved for the treatment of MS.
I bet that the weed would be approved after that.
Yeah, it was probably in the Tottenville or Prince’s Bay area of Staten Island.
It’s full of people I used to know.
The best thing for it is a small dirty bomb airburst at around 3,000 feet. (Hell, I used to Live in Mariner’s Harbor. That sucked… Make it a bigger bomb and 8.000 feet.)
On upside, the “LicketySplit” trademark is now available for that all lesbian cruise ship that straight men dream about.
Ahh… c’mon, the Oxys was legit! It was for when you get brain freeze you wouldn’t feel it so bad! LOL jus sayin’