Where do illegal, online pharmacies get their medications? At least some of them are selling wares originally copped in massive thefts of semi-trucks full of pharmaceuticals.
The largest such robbery, which happened last March, featured a matinee-worthy heist plan involving a team of thieves rappelling into an Eli Lilly warehouse. They made off with $75 million worth of Prozac, Stattera, Cymbalta, Zyprexa, Gemzar, Alimta and Efient.
This is not a field for violence-loving villains, though. Apparently, the vast majority of these thefts happen when truck drivers leave their rigs unattended at traffic lights and in parking lots. Which, to me, is really the most mind-blowing part of this whole story.
FiercePharmaManufacturing, via The Scientist magazine: Top 10 Pharma Cargo Thefts By Value 2009/2010
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