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Pill Bust in Margate takes $50K in narcotics off Streets
• Ohio resident 'doctor shopping' in Margate
Thursday,
April 15, 2010
Margate cops seized roughly 1,000 black market Oxycontin pills last month after surveillance led to an Ohio citizen ‘doctor shopping’ in various pain clinics around Margate. Detectives estimated the street value of seized narcotics to be in the range of $50,000.
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Hundreds of Xanax and Hydrocodone pills were also seized, along with roughly $2,700 in cash, during a bust which took place in the 7 Eleven parking lot on Atlantic Boulevard.
Undercover cops witnessed Ohio resident, Gary Huffman, getting out of one car and into the next, while in between tossing empty pill bottles in the store’s garbage, states a Margate Police Report.
Huffman attempted to conceal the narcotics by hiding them in pill bottles prescribed to him, according to the report.
It was determined through investigation that Huffman was paying family members to doctor shop and to purchase illegal narcotics as well.
At the April 7 Margate City Commission meeting, city officials passed the second of two ordinances required for a moratorium on pain clinics in the city.
During the moratorium, city planners will craft an ordinance outlining how pain clinics will operate in the city moving forward.
Accidental deaths, overdoses and the unfettered dispensation of pain pills in Broward County has federal and local law enforcement agencies engaging the help of municipal governments across South Florida, including Margate, with the hopes of curtailing the negative impact pain mills have on the health and welfare of Floridians and their families.
Florida’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, designed to track pain pills sold by pain doctors, takes effect in December, which lawmakers hope will bring some relief to the problems caused by the proliferation of pain clinics in South Florida, states Florida State Attorney, Michael J. Satz in a report.
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