Posted on 08/19/2010 7:41:08 PM PDT by markomalley
American Fork, Utah (CNN) -- Pharmacies in Utah and Illinois are at the heart of an illicit nationwide network providing prescription drugs over the internet, federal agents state in court papers filed in two cities.
In search warrant affidavits obtained by CNN, agents that the business was centered around two pharmacies, one in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, Illinois, and the other here in this small town south of Salt Lake City.
According to the affidavits, both pharmacies are owned by the same man, Kyle Rootsaert -- the subject of a 2008 report by CNN. One of them, the Des Plaines company now called Rand Pharmacy, combined with another unidentified pharmacy to ship 30,000 packages of prescription drugs across the country during the first six months of 2010.
"This is a pretty large ring of at least 200 websites that acted as internet pharmacies that were basically selling drugs -- prescription drugs -- without requiring a valid prescription," John Horton, a former official in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, told CNN. "These affidavits indicate this was a multiyear, multimillion-dollar operation involving thousands and thousands of prescriptions. Going back in time, there were even deaths involved with this organization."
The affidavits say most of the drugs were highly addictive, especially muscle relaxants called Soma and tramadol. And the majority of the prescriptions, a government source told CNN, were authorized by the same physician, Dr. William E. Morrow of Layton, Utah, who had never seen or even talked with those ordering the drugs online, according to the documents.
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Does this mean I won’t get Viagra spam anymore???
Does Viagra Spam taste any different than regular Spam?
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“The affidavits say most of the drugs were highly addictive, especially muscle relaxants called Soma and tramadol”
tramadol is not highly addictiv nor is it a muscle relaxant.
I didn’t realize these companies actually delivered drugs. I just presumed they were all scams.
They’re worried about muscle relaxants? At least two of them (but not soma) are available OTC in Canada.
I want something without so much Spam in it.
I wish we had it rigged so that you had to have permission from an Electrical Engineer before it was legal to buy electronics. Then I could make $400K a year.
I never knew Soma was addictive...i’ve taken that quite a bit...very little side effects as far as i can tell.
agree
“>”Does this mean I won’t get Viagra spam anymore???”<
Does Viagra Spam taste any different than regular Spam?”
both too salty! ;-)
///The affidavits say most of the drugs were highly addictive, especially muscle relaxants called Soma and tramadol.///
Soma and tramadol are not controlled substances. Any drug considered addicting is controlled.
I feel so much safer.........
Online meds ping!
“They’re worried about muscle relaxants? “
Muscle relaxants can be dangerous. So can ibuprofen and Tylenol.
Bad news for the stoners in California they won’t be able to obtain medical weed from an on line pharmacies.what is the world coming to?. /s
The Viagra spam has a customer assistance number on the can for the buyer to call if the product’s texture is still too firm 4 hours after removing it from the package...
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