Feds Bust Rogue Internet Pharmacy

Tyler Wing WGNO News

11:07 p.m. CDT, May 7, 2012

NEW ORLEANS

The Drug Enforcement Agency busts an illegal mail-order pharmaceutical drug-ring based in New Orleans.

An 18-month investigation reveals 60-year-old Carlton Charles is the accused mastermind behind a rogue internet pharmacy mailing prescription drugs to people all over the nation.

Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Fox says drugs were sold to people in all fifty states, They would package it and ship it through one of the national shipping companies.

Three others are in custody charged with a long list of crimes including money laundering, and racketeering.

Based out of the same building where the Esplanade Pharmacy is now, agents estimate illegal internet sales totaled roughly $16 million.

Fox says Charles used seven different websites to peddle the pharmaceuticals, They had conspired with an individual in Seattle, Washington to create a web base. To circumvent law enforcement they would show the IP address as being located in Austin, Texas.

The DEA busted the Esplanade Pharmacy two years ago and Charless license to prescribe was revoked.

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