Fifty-six government employees — including a police officer,
a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants — were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.Arrested as “recruiters” in the alleged OxyContin scam, are, clockwise: Janice Currington; Dwonvalyn Johnson; Barbara Miller Benaby; Guyton Wynell; Marcella Pierce; and Wanda McNeal.
Authorities estimate 130 medically unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin — more than 12,000 tablets — were presented to pharmacies. The drugs have an estimated street value of $400,000, prosecutors
The scam began in January 2003, when six “recruiters” enlisted a group of people, most of them employees of local government, to participate in the ring, according to prosecutors.
Those employees provided their health insurance identification information, and with that information they obtained unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin from another codefendant, who was a physician, authorities said.
How is it that in the last thirty years we’ve made leaps forward in technology, evolving from things like the eight-track to the iTouch, yet drugs just get shittier and shittier? Who takes OxyContin anyway? Oh yeah, our kids teachers, and the cops apparently.
And Rushie-poo.
Moss,
I’m sure Rushie-poo’s addiction was somebody else’s fault, not his.
Time to play the race card. Where is Jesse and Al with their indignation?
We have to get over our intense fear of opiates in this country.Vicodin,fentanyl and Oxycontin are synthetic opiates that thousands of people use in this country for chronic pain.We use synthetic opiates because heroin is illegal to prescribe.When a person is in intense pain it doesn’t matter to them that they get addicted.It should not matter to the government or nanny state liberals-conservatives that a person chooses to use a drug.The laws are the problem not these drugs.
Oxycotin makes me sick, as well as vicodin. I guess I wouldn’t make a very good drug dealer.
Well said, billabong. The Methodists are running the country. Does something make you angry? Call a cop. There’s some law being broken. Heroin’s original name was Heroine, because it saved so many lives after its discovery. Is someone abusing it? Just make it illegal for everyone! If someone disrupts the bus, stop and make everyone late. It’s the American way.
Weird how they are all black.
To the poster that posted this. I don’t recall a single teacher being mentioned in the article. Maybe you need to use a little less and read more carefully.
#8 There were at least two teacher aids in Miami-Dade Public School System in addition to other school employees.
As for using, I don’t do drugs, drink or smoke, but if I did, you can bet I’d kick it old school and get the good stuff. None of this Oxy-crap the kids are taking these days. What ever happened to LSD?
Who is paying 33 bucks for an Oxy tab ?