A 28-year-old Spring Hill man has admitted robbing several pharmacies at gunpoint last year, demanding and receiving oxycodone and methadone. ...more

November 6, 2009

Detectives arrested a Pinellas County detention deputy this morning while he was on duty and charged him with doctor shopping and prescription fraud. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Michael Bowman was arrested following an investigation that started in August after the department received information he was getting treatment from more than one doctor with the intent to get prescriptions for hydrocodone and oxycodone. ...more

November 3, 2009

The sons of Holy Ground owner, Lisa Barabas-Henry have been indicted on federal drug charges. Lance Derek Barabas, 21, Larry Gene Barabas Jr., 25, and Landon Douglas Barabas, 23, were arrested Tuesday by federal agents on charges of trafficking and money laundering. ...more

October 30, 2009

The sons of Holy Ground homeless shelter owner Lisa Barabas-Henry have been indicted on federal drug charges. ...more

October 30, 2009

Participants in an oxycodone ring that was run from the car repair shop of a man dubbed "The King of Hudson" are going to federal prison. ...more

October 28, 2009

Abuses of prescription painkillers is a hard pill for state lawmakers to swallow. So-called "pill mills" have transformed much of Florida into "the painkiller capital of the United States, the notorious home to a cottage industry of storefront pain clinics selling alarming numbers of narcotics and feeding a brazen black market," state Rep. John Legg said in a press release. ...more

October 24, 2009

A nurse at the Hernando County Jail was arrested Friday on allegations he was trafficking prescription drugs and giving them to an inmate. ...more

October 23, 2009

What is Highlands County drug abusers' poison of choice? According to Capt. Randy LaBelle, with the Highlands County Sheriff's Office's Special Investigations Unit (SIU), it's prescription medications. ...more

October 21, 2009

Authorities say the winner of reality TV show "Big Brother" has confessed to using his $500,000 prize to buy thousands of oxycodone pills and resell them. ...more

October 20, 2009

A man who entered two pharmacies and demanded oxycodone Saturday morning has been arrested, police say. ...more

September 27, 2009