Popular NJ pharmacist nabbed in HUGE oxycodone drug bust

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A neighborhood pharmacist in New Jersey is accused of running a $1 million a month prescription drug ring.

Investigators say the pharmacist dispensed nearly half a million oxycodone pills in the last year alone. That pharmacist was among 19 people arrested Wednesday.

The top target of the "Operation Oxymoron" was longtime popular pharmacist Vincent Hsia, who investigators call the top distributor of illegal OxyContin and oxycodone in the country.

"Today, we have a legal criminal prescription for him, arrest and dismantlement," DEA agent John McCabe said.

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A 15-month investigation by the DEA, FBI and several local agencies netted 19 people, $500,000, several weapons and proof, says the DEA, that Hsai and those who helped him were major national players.

Investigators say Hsai would fill prescriptions he knew were fake and have those under him sell individual pills on the street. The quantity, according to authorities, was 15,000 pills a week at $15 a pop. That's $225,000 every week, nearly a million a month.

People who rely on the Good Neighbor Pharmacy couldn't believe the news and had absolutely no hint anything like this was going on.

The Essex County sheriff says a bust of this size is so much more than just a feather in law enforcement's cap, it's actually saving lives. They say kids are getting hooked on drugs like this every day.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7373644
 
DAMN

i thought pharmacies kept track of all the Rxs comin in and goin out

how does one sneak that many pills out? and for that long?

also 15 a pop, not bad, wonder if they were 80s ;)
 
"Hi, Purdue? Ok, I need half a million oxycodone 80mg."

<kevin mccalister voice>: "Credit card? No problem."

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I never understood why any doctor would do this. Not only are you facing decades in jail, heavy fines, forfeitures, but you're also facing the loss of your profession, which you've most likely spent 8+ years preparing for and a fuck load of money on. Not to mention you could make a more than comfortable living doing your job legitimately. Just doesn't make any sense to get involved in any type of illicit distribution if you're a physician.
 
while i am sure one can make good money legally, you ain't becoming a millionaire in a month, much less a billionaire through the course of a full career (83 years according to the math but hey, close enough) if you can manage to not get busted

I am agree with Volcano, how are they providing so many pills to one pharmacy and not raising an eyebrow? maybe they did and thats why hsia got busted.

I think it is even stupider, though, how the law enforcement announcement always includes some stupid joke. I think super troopers really nailed it.
 
Keep in mind these doctors buy stuff too...

Not everything is ordered out of a catalog.... Sometimes you gotta know the right people..

At least the ones i hear about, they get it else ware....
 
orangescrewpen said:
while i am sure one can make good money legally, you ain't becoming a millionaire in a month, much less a billionaire through the course of a full career (83 years according to the math but hey, close enough) if you can manage to not get busted

I am agree with Volcano, how are they providing so many pills to one pharmacy and not raising an eyebrow? maybe they did and thats why hsia got busted.

I think it is even stupider, though, how the law enforcement announcement always includes some stupid joke. I think super troopers really nailed it.
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Well think about their potential customers they could have customers from the new york metro area, which has like 15 million people(don't quote me, but maybe more) and average like 100 pills per script it's completely possible without suspicion
 
yeah but then how many pharmacies are there? If you think about about many counters/pharmacists they have, and then how many customers it is physically possible to serve in a day, and then how many of them will be filling 100 pill oxy scripts... 500000 pills still seems like a lot


eh, actually doing the math that is only 14 100 pill scripts a day, every day for a year so i suppose it is possible but I am sure not that common
 
i doubt this Hsia guy had "real" pharmacist degree from a U.S. college. He probably got his "degree" is india or some shit and worked some shitty ass pharmacy in the ghetto that didn't do very good business wise. Your average wal-greens/CVS pharmacist will never do this type of shit. ya know? im not trying to sterotype but just statistically speaking thats probably more along the lines of the truth.
 
phrozen said:
I never understood why any doctor would do this. Not only are you facing decades in jail, heavy fines, forfeitures, but you're also facing the loss of your profession, which you've most likely spent 8+ years preparing for and a fuck load of money on. Not to mention you could make a more than comfortable living doing your job legitimately. Just doesn't make any sense to get involved in any type of illicit distribution if you're a physician.
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It's the war on drugs, nothing make sense.
 
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