Posted on 03/16/2010 5:28:16 AM PDT by Puppage
Enfield, Conn. (WTNH) - Thieves broke into an Enfield warehouse filled with prescription drugs over the weekend, getting away with up to $75 million worth of narcotics.
The large, non-descript brown building back in the woods in Enfield is a transportation hub of sorts for prescription drug company Eli Lilly . Over the weekend someone cut a hole in the roof and rappelled inside, stealing between $50-$75 million worth of drugs. It's the largest theft in town history.
"The hole was very high up and there was no way they you would be able to leap to the floor," Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said. "I don't want to get into the specific evidence that we found there, but we believe that is how they gained entry into the building."
Police are still collecting evidence and trying to figure how much of what drugs were stolen. Sources close to the investigation say about 70 pallets of prescription drugs were taken.
"We don't have a list of exactly what they took," Chief Sferrazza said. "There are pain killers involved. All prescription drugs. That is the kind of narcotics that are housed there."
Police say the thieves may have gone in through the roof, but they probably left out the back door at the loading docks because they needed at least one tractor trailer, maybe two, to get the drugs out. Police say these guys knew what they were doing.
"The evidence the officers found, this does not appear that it is one or two individuals that committed this burglary," said Chief Sferrazza. "It appears to be a well-organized and large-scale operation."
Federal authorities will be meeting Tuesday morning to go over what happened and to try to figure out who committed this crime.
Anyone who may have witnessed anything is asked to contact the Enfield Police Department at 860-763-8918.
“70 pallets”
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That’s enough pain pills to create a whole new generation of narcotic addicts. Kids especially are far more likely to try narcotics for the first time when it’s in the pill form as opposed to injectable. In fact, “pill parties” are all the rage I hear.
It sounds more like organized crime to me. I would bet money on it in fact. their may have been an insider that helped though.
No security guards on duty? The place had millions of $$ worth of stuff, and it was totally unmanned on weekends?
This sounds like Goodfellows II in the making.
Yup... inside job for sure.
The world’s lousiest alarm system?
Guess someone forgot to set the alarm?
Let’s put this into perspective. Bush’s medicare prescription drug plan earmarked $395 billion over ten years. Ignoring the time value of money to keep the calculations simple, that works out to $39.5 billion/year. $75 million worth of prescription drugs would cover that for 0.69 days or about sixteen and a half hours of federal expenditures on subsidized drugs. Whoever ripped off that warehouse is a piker. The real criminals are our politicians.
Was going to say....you can get 24 in a standard truck so at least 4 trucks.
I suppose they could be double stacked but still...this was a very well coordinated heist.
A simple motion detector would have foiled them.
Yup.
Nope.
It is easy to silence horns with insulation foam, and cut the phone lines for the alarm system so it won’t transmit. And cut the line for the cell tower backup. That is simple. If you have the resources for tractor trailer trucks and cutting thru roof, you can bypass any basic alarm systems that most places think is “good enough”. That is why on site security with hourly checkin is worth the money. On top of the alarm systems.
No kidding, this would be a traffic jam of trucks!
And nobody saw anything? No cameras, no guards, what do they think they are running here? An auto junkyard would have better security than this place?
There’s a prison right there in Somers. Could have been plotted for a looong time. But they would likely need someone on the inside..
This happened right down the street from my house. The police chief is my wife’s cousin.
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