Knight: ‘Bad Apples’ plucked
SUN PHOTO BY SCOTT LOCKWOOD
Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight goes over the results of "Operation Bad Apple", an investigation into a prescription fraud ring that put thousands of oxycodone pills on the streets. Charges have been filed against 29 suspects, who used fradulent prescriptions to obtain the drugs from Apple Pharmacy in Englewood. Kinght is pictured with a chart featuring pictures of 25 of the suspects.
SUN PHOTO BY SCOTT LOCKWOOD
Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight goes over the results of "Operation Bad Apple", an investigation into a prescription fraud ring that put thousands of oxycodone pills on the streets. Charges have been filed against 29 suspects, who used fradulent prescriptions to obtain the drugs from Apple Pharmacy in Englewood. Kinght is pictured with a chart featuring pictures of 25 of the suspects.
SUN PHOTO BY CLINTON BURTON, cburton@sun-herald.com
The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office charged 29 people this week with fraudulently obtaining oxycodone pills. The SCSO says the men and women purchased thousands of the prescription pain pills at Apple Pharmacy in Englewood.
A 10-month investigation into a drug ring in which suspects used fraudulent prescriptions to get thousands of oxycodone pills from Apple Pharmacy in Englewood has yielded more than two dozen arrests, Sarasota County Sheriff Tom Knight said Friday.
The SCSO’s “Operation Bad Apple” investigation has led to charges against 29 individuals from Sarasota, Charlotte, DeSoto and Manatee counties who obtained oxycodone, a pain-relief drug that Knight called “synthetic heroin,” from the pharmacy at
500 N. Indiana Ave. Twenty-eight are in custody.
