Posted on 02/24/2011 6:24:51 PM PST by TheDingoAteMyBaby
Drug agents raided 11 pain clinics from Miami to West Palm Beach on Wednesday, arresting 23 people and seizing $2.5 million in cash and dozens of cars in the biggest single strike yet at Florida's pain pill industry.
Among those arrested were four physicians, including the son of Broward Medical Examiner Joshua Perper, and five owners of raided pain clinics, officials said.
The biggest catch, officials said, was Vincent Colangelo, 42, a Davie man who earned an estimated $150,000 a day from the seven now-shuttered pain centers he owned.
Law enforcement agencies moved to seize from the Colangelo operation $22 million in assets, including homes, an Okeechobee trailer park and 46 vehicles. Agents displayed a parking lot full of the high-priced cars, such as a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car and two Lamborghinis.
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I feel so much safer now.
Manufacturers and pharmacies have to report their every transaction to the Feds daily, I believe, and it is all in one database. How is it that it gets to this point before the DEA, FDA, etc, see that tons of pills are moving to where they couldn’t possibly be for legitimate uses?
Ah sunny Florida a scam artist and flim flam huckster in every trailer park.
Yes, there is a DEA database for all transactions but they had not taken action against doc shoppers or pill mills until today
The next step will be going after the doctor shoppers who are another layer in this whole scam, Oxycontin is the main drug they are after
About damned time I say
“In Delray Beach, police arrested Dr. Zvi Harry Perper, the Broward medical examiner’s son, at busy Delray Pain Management where the son is listed as the owner on state registration documents. Also arrested was the manager, Kent Murry, who had opened the clinic in 2009 and also trafficked in pain pills, prosecutors said in the charges.”
“After a 10 a.m. raid, Perper was led out in handcuffs and beige medical scrubs and escorted to a police car. One of many reporters watching the raid shouted a question, asking Perper if he thought this day would ever come.”
“”No,” he said, refusing to comment further. Perper began working at the pain clinic after he was fined $10,000 by the state in 2008 for a botched abortion in Orlando, according to state records.”
So Zvi, the Israeli and son of the medical examiner, got his start in an abortion mill?
I don’t understand your statement or lack of sarcasm tag.
I didn’t see any mention of him being Israeli.
“Oxycontin is the main drug they are after”
Oxys are good but dilaudid is better. This is a terrible problen that should be vigorously addressed. There was a post this am about surviving a disaster. People were asking about ordering pain med online from Canada etc. I had to clue them in that possession of narcotics without a prescription is illegal and can get one locked up asap.
I agree that script writers that are legit need to be hit hard.. If pain is valid, I would hope someone is treated properly.
Synthetic hydromorphone is nasty stuff... Poor mans heroin..
Arghh. Not legit.. See above.
I don’t understand your confusion or your thought that I was being sarcastic.
With people moving enough to make $150k per day I don't understand why it took so long.
About damn time!
Much of that is coming up north into Kentucky where it is being resold. I’m not big on national databases but we need one for narcotics.
I probably misread your post.. I was discounting black market drugs but I think CS-2 have log books and specific precription protocal. I could be wrong.
When you say “black market drugs” perhaps you mean drugs that aren’t ever Rx drugs. I wasn’t talking about those at all. I don’t know what CS-2 is.
Completely understand, I was working for a company who setup doctors to prescribe and dispense in their office and the forms the DEA required were extensive, especially for Schedule drugs. The same database should heave been mapping abusers to the doctors but they would not pull he trigger until now.
Controlled Level 2 drugs.. They can’t be called in. Oxycodine, Dilaudid, etc... No biggy.. Look at what Rush got in hot water for. Those are nasty drugs. The “street level” of these drugs are nuts. They “bang” them. (Dissolve them in liquid and inject themselves in the neck, ankles, and arms).
I had a post-surgerical experience a few times.. Not a good nights sleep..
That's the part I don't understand.
I assume that post was for me. I know what pharmaceuticals are sold on the black market and how they get used, for the most part, what I asked about was why it took such a large amount of traffic before the DEA saw a problem and moved on it.
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