By Steve Neavling A New York pharmacist is accused of sending powdered cocaine in a greeting card to a DEA agent after discovering his business was under investigation, the Justice Department said. The idea was to disrupt the investigation, but the plan failed. Dimitrios Lymberatos, 34, is charged with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI special agent and his wife admitted they hid income from the IRS. Pritesh Desai, 47, and his wife Darshna Desai, 45, both of Watchung, N.J., pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiring to defraud the IRS in federal court in Trenton, NJ.com reports. The couple is accused of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In its effort to crack down on addictive painkillers like oxycodone, the DEA has revoked the controlled substance licenses of two CVS Caremark Corp drugstores in Florida, Reuters reports. The two stores, about 30 miles south of the Orlando, contend they did nothing wrong and were busy pharmacies. The DEA, however, alleges…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent who was killed trying to prevent a pharmacy robbery in his hometown in New York had a portion of a street named after him over the weekend, Newsday reports. Senior Special Agent John F. Capano Avenue is the new name of Waverly Avenue at Seamans Neck Road where Capano…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com ATF officials are calling the man ultimately responsible for the death of off-duty agent John Capano a “career criminal who chose to resume his life of crime” on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, reports Wantagh-Seaford Patch. Capano, a 23-year veteran of the ATF and originally from the New York town…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is concerned about American pharmacists. There have been about 1,800 pharmacy robberies in the past three years, he has said in calling for increased protection for pharmacists, reports UPI. Schumer blames the robberies on the increased ability to obtain highly addictive pain medications like Oxycontin, and in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Sadly, investigators believe the off-duty ATF agent who was shot and killed while struggling with a robbery suspect last Saturday at a Long Island pharmacy, was likely shot by friendly fire from a retired Nassau County police lieutenant, the New York Daily News reported, citing unnamed sources. The paper reported that…
The wide ranging, multi-state probe into the death of Michael Jackson continues. Here’s the latest. By MAGGIE LILLIS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL LAS VEGAS –Federal agents searched a pharmacy in a Las Vegas strip mall Tuesday morning as part of the investigation into the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. Although Drug Enforcement Administration agents at the…
