Posted on 06/27/2006 2:29:14 AM PDT by Caipirabob
Rush Limbaugh was briefly detained Monday at Palm Beach International Airport when customs agents inspected the conservative talk show host's luggage and found Viagra that belonged to two Florida doctors, authorities said.
"He was not arrested," Palm Beach County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Pete Palenzuela said.
Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, issued a statement through a spokesman saying that agents found a "non-narcotic prescription drug, which had been prescribed by Mr. Limbaugh's treating physician but labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes."
Limbaugh, 55, of Palm Beach, and three others arrived on a private jet from the Dominican Republic to the General Air Facility at PBIA on Monday afternoon, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Service said.
Agents searched the plane during a routine customs inspection and found a pill bottle that was not in Limbaugh's name, said Jennifer Connors, a Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman. Agents confiscated the medicine and called the Sheriff's Office, which took over the investigation.
"Mr. Limbaugh was cooperative. He gave a statement that he had a bottle in his possession and that it was Viagra," said sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller, who noted that the prescription was filled in Florida.
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What really irritates me is that while they are doing this, who knows how many illegals and muslums just checked right past the guards.
It's shameful
looks like plenty of oats...after all, a bottle of 25 viagra pills, is a whole of planting to do....
I can't "fathom" Rush driving off a bridge that results in the death of a girl and getting away with it.
While being a "serious Presidential contender" awaiting coronation, no less!
CA....
whole lot of
LOL on the Darth Vader picture. He must have needed viagra afer the lava incident, LOL.
Welcome to FR.
I guarantee you nobody checked right past the guards. Everyone coming into that airport from overseas goes through CBP.
Rush is on the loose again?? LOL, too bad for the libs!
It was Customs inspecting the luggage, which is what they do. It's NOT their job to enforce ANY plea bargain, that's the job of the AG.
As far as inspecting John Doe's luggage, I hope they do, but John Doe would not have a story written about him in the Sun-Sentinel for having Viagra in his suitcase....
Rush did not miss a beat today
He made a quick joke and had a great show
Th no-names in the media just can't handle it
Rush almost married a blatant liberal like Darryn Kagan??
Unreal.
That's great, I know you enjoyed it!
Then he should move to North Carolina, Georgia or South Carolina - still parts of America.
Pedal to the metal show
Rush is like Rummy
He does not get discouraged -
He just gets more determined -
"Everyone and their cat knows that there is no greater threat to world peace and international security than a rogue Rush Limbaugh with a legal prescription of viagra in his suitcase. Saints protect us...."
It is the end as we know it.
No. She was close to getting married to him but he was not close at all to marrying her.
But not because she is a liberal. She wants babies. He does not.
The confiscation of Rush's Viagra only stiffened the resolve of the DA to try to hose Rush.
No 'by by Miss American Pie'?
Rush is a brilliant man he must have known they would find the viagra...which is the lefts favorite pill. I was just wondering...
"Do you always travel with every prescription bottle of every medicine you are taking? "
When I know I'm having to clear both my own and some foreign countries customs ? Damn straight I do !
http://www.surveyusa.com/2004_Elections/FL041027palmbeachshrf.pdf
This doesn't come out and say he's a Republican, but 58% of the Republicans favored him, 32% favored his oponent, and 10 % replied "other". 56% of conservatives favored him, vs. 39% of liberals.
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