According to authorities, the operation sold 225,900 pills last year and made millions. Clients receiving oxycodone would ship it as far as Ohio and Texas, authorities said. All defendants are charged with two counts of racketeering.
This past spring, Georgia approved the creation of an electronic prescription drug monitoring database, but it won’t be operational until Jan. 2013.
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