Truckload of oxycodone (70,000 bottles) stolen while driver buys cigarettes

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Actavis opiate shipment hit by cargo thieves in USA

Generic drugmaker Actavis suffered a full truckload (FTL) cargo theft on October 19, losing more than 30 pallets of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines and epilepsy drugs.

The thieves made off with 14 pallets of oxycodone HCl tablets (around 70,000 units), six pallets of anxiety drug alprazolam (around 24,000 units) and nine pallets of the epilepsy drug gabapentin (about 5,000 units). The estimated value of the haul has not yet been released.

The shipment was taken at a truck stop in Washington County, Pennsylvania, whilst en route from a facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, according to an alert from the Pharmaceutical Cargo Security Consortium (PCSC).

The carrier was GSI Trucking and both trailer and tractor were taken after the driver left the vehicle running while he went inside the truck stop to purchase cigarettes. While the truck had a GPS tracker installed the alarm was not raised immediately because the legitimate driver was thought to be behind the wheel.

http://www.securingpharma.com/40/articles/1073.php
 
I wonder if the people stealing the truck know it has GPS tracking or not. If they don't, this will probably be a non-issue.

If they do....then that's another story.

Nice read!
 
I changed "70,000 pills" to "70,000 bottles" in the title after reasoning that a pallet can carry several thousand pill bottles, and because "units" probably refers to bottles from a distribution viewpoint.

Holy mother of Christ.
 
That's a lot of oxycodone...and gabapentin...and Xanax.

I'm interested in how this whole thing will turn out. I just keep playing the scene from Goodfellas over and over again in my head (when they steal the truck full of cigarettes while the driver is grabbing a cup of coffee).
 
whoa.

"In other news, an unnamed driver carrying a shipment of pharmaceutical drugs fell asleep at the wheel, careening off the road and into a waste-tretment tank. It is not yet clear who the driver of the vehicle was, nor is it known who contracted the shipment. Stay tuned for details."
 
yea really, ever seen good fellas? bullshit the driver just "left it running" by accident. Inside job all the way.
 
MemphisX3 said:
they definitely knew what was in that truck...inside job
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Exactly what I was thinking...another issue that raises my eyebrows is the whole "the driver left the keys in the ignition." I read somewhere that that has recently become illegal for anyone to do in my state. Of course this didn't happen in my state but my logic follows the lines of thinking that if regular drivers aren't allowed to do this in one state, I'm guessing that truck drivers are held to a higher standard and thus this was probably against procedure.

Somebody is sleeping easy tonight.
 
...another issue that raises my eyebrows is the whole "the driver left the keys in the ignition." I read somewhere that that has recently become illegal for anyone to do in my state.
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If only people stopped doing things after they were illegal.
 
villian said:
If only people stopped doing things after they were illegal.
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I said that in relation to the fact that truck drivers are held to a higher standard. I support this by mentioning that most semi's have a sticker on the back with a number to call if you have issues with the driver of said truck's driving.

Semi truck drivers drive for a living, I believe that they take their job, and driving as a result, more seriously than the average citizen.
 
News stories like this basically scream "If you jack a truck leaving this facility at this address, it will probably have millions of dollars worth of dope in it"

Seems very odd that all 3 drugs have recreational potential and thus a street value typically higher than regular black market medications (even though that in itself is a large and profitable market for everything from cancer drugs to allergy medication).
 
I would guess that they like to send scheduled medications together/ or its required under FDA rules.


imagine though... stealing a shipping vessel leaving europe or israel filled with dope... Just out there floatin on the seas with nothin to do.
 
NeighborhoodThreat said:
That's a lot of oxycodone...and gabapentin...and Xanax.

I'm interested in how this whole thing will turn out. I just keep playing the scene from Goodfellas over and over again in my head (when they steal the truck full of cigarettes while the driver is grabbing a cup of coffee).
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If you're saying that the driver was probably in on it like in Goodfellas, I agree. If this isn't the case then the jackers would have to have followed him around everywhere waiting for him to leave the truck running. They'd have to know that there was actually a worth-while load in there, too. Maybe they are really good at what they do, really really good, or maybe it was an inside job. I don't see how the truck has a GPS tracker but it didn't matter because they thought the driver was driving the whole time. Wouldn't he report it stolen ASAP?
 
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