Federal, state and local authorities arrest Indianapolis man accused of forging prescriptions
INDIANAPOLIS,Ind (March 14, 2015)-Federal Drug Enforcement agents along with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and the Indiana State Police arrested a man on drug and forgery charges late Friday evening.
Sources close to the investigation say Juwann Williams is believed to be part of a larger group of individuals who are allegedly targeting reputable doctors and forging their prescriptions.The illegal narcotics ring is then allegedly selling the drugs for profit.
Williams was arrested at his home located at 9242 Memorial Drive.
Sources say it was a FOX59 story that sparked the investigation and ultimately led to William’s arrest.
It is believed the people involved in the forgery scheme would steal the identities of innocent individuals in order to collect the prescriptions at local pharmacies.It’s unknown how their identities were compromised.
Sources say Williams and the others involved were illegally selling Oxycodone.
Imagine if Pharmacists were allowed to validate driver’s license presented against the person standing in front of them and the BMV on line database… how many fewer legal drugs would have reached the street and how much sooner these criminals could have been taken off the street. But according to the Indiana BMV and AG’s office… providing that ability to healthcare professionals would compromise some sort of privacy issue. I guess that a person’s privacy regarding their name, picture, DOB is more important than curtailing the illicit diversion of legal drugs to “the street”.
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sorry Steve I meant to post the above reply under your Tulsa OK robberies thread
I wonder how many pharmacies were robbed before the Harrison Act was implemented. Maybe if oxycodone and hydrocodone were sold over the counter (with pharmacist counseling available and a signed waiver of responsibility) like pseudoephedrine we could all just go about our business. There was a column the other day over whether acetaminophen should be by Rx!!!!!!!!!!!! RUFkidding me? Can the avg american not count to 3,000 [mg] anymore? Personal responsibility needs to reenter the American vocabulary, Why do we insist on a nanny state where everything is settled by litigation or threat thereof?
Personally I could give a dam what Joe Blow or Jane Doe ingests or how he/she does it (IV, snorting, oral). As long as they aren’t behind the wheel or distributing it to minors, let adults make decisions for themselves. MORE IMPORTANTLY, take the profit out of the black market and there is no incentive to rob a pharmacy, ‘rip off’ grandma’s medications, or kill a rival dealer, Wrong message to kids? Well what message is it when children are hit by stray gunfire or flash bang grenades by law enforcement? Nobody asks if these are the ‘right messages sent to children’.
The education system, our transportation infrastructure, and healthcare system sure could use some of the billions soaked up by the Prison Industrial Complex and assorted Government alphabet soup agencies who enjoy selling guns to Cartels and shipping heroin back into the US. Where are the ‘free press’ when these stories are breaking? Maybe it takes away too much time from the hundreds of hours devoted to soap opera trials like the Michael Jackson or the Jodi Arias/Travis Alexander cases??? More likely they are thinking they would not like to end up like Gary Webb (victim of a TWO shot suicide) after breaking Iran Contra scandal.
This is NOT a rhetorical question so please feel free to answer because I really would like to know. WHAT IS THE F’ng obsession w/ what other people do or how they choose to live their lives? If they want to ruin it by eating 10,ooo mg of APAP a day or by drinking a 5th of Jack Daniels and 2 packs of Marlboro? When (or IF) citizens ever wake up to the fact that the drug war is a business and a population control measure used by the govt to deprive them of their civil liberties these stories will play out like a bad movie over and over and over again. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The results are good for law enforcement when they seize your cash as you drive down the road to buy a used car (private citizens are a little leery of accepting a strangers checks).I dont see the same good results for the American taxpayer or for all the countries who’s sovereignty we violate on a daily basis.
Oh, I forgot, we are just ‘turning the corner’ on the Rx ‘epidemic’………….next up……..heroin…………..then meth again, after that………(pick one it doesn’t really matter)????
Robbers of Rx drugs will continue unabated. As Dillinger was quoted, why do you rob banks? “Cause that’s where the money is!” In this case it’s where the drugs are.
it was Willie Sutton who said that. not Dillinger.