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Dorian Gray
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Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring
#21791630 - 06/11/15 03:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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An aged New York doctor and his wife were arrested at their Upper West Side home on Tuesday, accused of supplying the city’s black market with over 3 million oxycodone pills since 2009, USA Today reports.
77-year-old Rogelio Lucas and 79-year-old Lydia Lucas have each been charged with one count of conspiracy and 37 counts of criminal sale of a prescription for a controlled substance for their alleged roles in a “pill mill” that prosecutors say provided drug rings with $7.7 million in illegal narcotics. From the NY Post:
Between 45 and 50 people who served as “runners” for the drug rings would routinely pick up prescriptions each day, then get them filled at local pharmacies and turn over the pills to the dealers, authorities said.
Lydia served as “the brains behind the operation,” scheduling appointments, maintaining files and collecting $120 in cash for each bogus script, Manhattan prosecutor Ryan Sakacs said.
“Dr. Lucas is charged with being one of the city’s most prolific illegal prescribers of the black market’s favorite pill — 30 mg oxycodone,” said New York’s special narcotics prosecutor Bridget Brennan. “Instead of healing, doctors who routinely sign orders for unneeded narcotic drugs endanger the health and welfare of the public.”
Authorities say the couple also has homes in Florida, Hawaii and Arizona, where investigators seized $600,000 in cash.
According to NBC New York, neither of the accused has a previous criminal record.
[Image via New York DEA]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/06/09/ny-couple-accused-running-pill-mill/28764585/
http://gawker.com/elderly-doctor-and-wife-accused-of-running-77-million-1710539750
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Konyap

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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: Dorian Gray]
#21791655 - 06/11/15 03:43 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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part of what makes them so dangerous is their long acting properties and their depressive effect on respiratory breathing
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BoomBoom
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: Konyap]
#21792284 - 06/11/15 09:20 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fucking roxys. Why dont they just make all pills like the OPs? Around my area people pay as much as 40$ for a pill. Valued more than gold itself and all this money for an addiction one cant hafford. Ive watched people steal and mess up friendships over a stupid little blue pill.
May 4th a girl died in my area because she had just left her dealers house and snorted a whole bunch of dope and wrecked with her 1 year old in the back seat of her Tahoe. The baby lived but she suffered massive brain trauma.
Edited by BoomBoom (06/11/15 09:24 AM)
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Jvells
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: BoomBoom]
#21793318 - 06/11/15 02:34 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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what if what if one of the two knew/found out they don't have too long for whatever reason (taking into account their old age) and decided to pull a breaking bad type idea and rake in tons of cash for their family members before going. They could have already way cashed out and probably could give two shits about being in prison knowing they already gave their family so much cash, just imagine
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tacodude
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: Konyap]
#21794729 - 06/11/15 07:59 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Illyabo said: part of what makes them so dangerous is their long acting properties and their depressive effect on respiratory breathing
What the hell are you talking long acting? 2-4 hour half life. Anyone dependant feels withdrawals on 4 hours and no relief by 6. Maybe the ER meds have long duration, but respiratory depression mainly in irresponsible doses or combinations. I've never had RD in five years of using and very little nodding.
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Cognitive_Shift
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: BoomBoom] 1
#21795167 - 06/11/15 09:54 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah doing drugs and driving is bad. Happens all the time with alcohol too, it's not the substance it's the decision making that kills people.
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lessismore
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
#21797142 - 06/12/15 11:55 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Cognitive_Shift said: Yeah doing drugs and driving is bad. Happens all the time with alcohol too, it's not the substance it's the decision making that kills people.
It's not the decision making that kills , it's the F=m*a
all is relative you know ;-) , infinite view angles
especially the system got infinite viewangles, until it finds one that justifies its own goodness and truthfulness
the brain can justify any goodness and truth
so drugs are really bad, and driving is really good - we need more roads
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LSDylan
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: lessismore]
#21809241 - 06/15/15 04:31 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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^Wow dude that was a bunch of nonsense...
tldr:
>Old guy supplies consenting humans with product they want. both sides see the trade as fair and participate
>Government steps in and ruins lives as usual
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Magicman69
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Re: Elderly Doctor and Wife Accused of Running $77 Million Pill Ring [Re: LSDylan]
#21816683 - 06/16/15 09:02 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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There was a doctor by me who got popped by the FBI for the same thing. We all called him God, that was his nickname. It was $300 cash only for an appointment. Then you would tell him what you wanted prescribed. This was during the Oxy 80 days so it was huge business. There were so many going around my group of friends that people were selling them for $10-$15 each instead of the $60 they were before God.
He would prescribe 90 Oxycontin 80's, 60 fast acting Oxycodones, 120 Xanax Bars, and 60 Soma's per month. Some pharmacies around us refused to even fill his scripts because they were so ridiculous. Especially for a healthy 20 year old 
Anyways, yeah God got raided like 7-8 years ago. Not sure how much time he got.
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