Ice Cream Truck Sold Oxycodone


Louis Scala drove through Staten Island in a Lickety Split ice cream truck as a camouflage for something ilegal. Louis Scala used the ice cream truck to sell oxycodone, a highly addictive prescription painkiller, to waiting addicts, they said.

Mr. Scala was one of 31 people indicted in what the authorities described as drug dealers who have sold at nearly 43,000 oxycodone pills, worth $1 million in New York City" between July 2009 and June 2010.

It is interesting when ice cream truck has been used as a route process of ilegal drug distribution channels

In a news release, Bridget G. Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor for the New York City, described Scala and a fellow Staten Island resident, Joseph Zaffuto, as the leaders of the oxycodone pills operation. (See organizational chart below and here.) A third defendant, Nancy Wilkins, described as the "linchpin of the scheme" worked as an office manager for a Manhattan orthopedic surgeon. She stole prescription pads from the surgeon and sold them to Mr. Scala and Zaffuto, who then recruited dozens of people to have the prescriptions filled at pharmacies, officials said.

Louis Scala CS now need a tough lawyer to save them.

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