Wisconsin authorities say they’ve broken up a large-scale prescription drug ring that at one time allegedly was operated by a county jail inmate.
The group would allegedly use information gathered from trash bins outside pharmacies to forge prescriptions, purchase such drugs as the addictive painkiller oxycodone and distribute them in Milwaukee and elsewhere in Wisconsin.
Jailed on felony charges are Micah Reno, 30, of Franklin, Wis., and James Leipski, 42, of Milwaukee. Authorities said Reno, identified as the ringleader, continued running the operation even while serving time in the Milwaukee County House of Correction on a cocaine possession charge from May 2007 through January, the newspaper said.
It’s critical to the mental health of prison inmates that they have secure communications with the outside world. Or so I’m told.
Inmates that I have met, are not planning their next heist.
As a milwaukee resident I am not too surprised at this.
GO BREWERS!!
I have been on prescribed oxycodone – OxyContin, 50mg twice daily, (for a degenerative, genetic joint disorder – the soft tissue is dissipating) for about 2 years now, and I can safely say, in my case anyway, that they are NOT addictive, I continually keep forgetting to take them, that is until the pain comes back, then I remember for sure. They don’t get me ‘high’ at all, however, I can say I am addicted to NO PAIN!
Regards, Rob – down under Linux freak