WISE — A roundup of drug suspects launched Wednesday by authorities in Wise County netted about half of the 40 people indicted by a multi-jurisdictional grand jury.

A license plate number and a surveillance video led police to a Monterey man suspected in a string of armed robberies targeting pharmacies.

Police have arrested a former Eastern Kentucky magistrate and three others on federal charges of trafficking prescription painkillers.
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A judge on Thursday reduced the bail amount for pediatrician Sergio Rodriguez from $2.7 million to $1.25 million, an amount his defense says is still excessive.

An 83-year-old pain management doctor has agreed to plead guilty to improperly prescribing oxycodone.

Robberies involving the narcotic OxyContin are so common that Walgreens has installed time-delayed safes in its 114 pharmacies across Washington to secure the powerful painkiller.
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Many kids say they can get any prescription drug they might want. Joseph Caspar, 17, says he could get "vicodin, morphine, anything like that." Patti Strickland says she could even get methadone.
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The Greenup County Sheriff's Department executed three search warrants in various locations throughout rural Greenup County on Thursday and Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into trafficking of prescription pain pills.
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A physician once named Lake Wylie's "citizen of the year" has agreed to pay $72,000 to settle federal allegations that he improperly prescribed the powerful painkiller oxycodone — which wound up being sold illegally on the street.
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Police are looking for information on a dark-haired man who walked into a Rite-Aid Pharmacy wearing aviator sunglasses Saturday afternoon and robbed the store of a variety of powerful prescription painkillers.