Two men charged after an Oxycontin bust
Posted Apr 20, 2011 4:28 pm.
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A year long investigation involving police and RCMP has resulted in two men being charged with illegally obtaining and possessing Oxycontin.
RCMP arrested 46-year-old Sammy Habib last Saturday in Kelowna and Calgary police arrested 49-year-old Michael Habib near his southwest home.
The two men obtained 85 prescriptions from more than a dozen doctors in Alberta and B.C.
Police also believe the two sometimes filled the same prescriptions in both provinces, a method often known as “double doctoring.”
Police say the men were prescribed about 67,000 Oxycontin pills worth an estimated $3.4 million.
The two then turned around and sold them on the street for profit.
