According to Newsone, A 70-year-old grandmother from the Philippines has been charged with being the ring leader of a codeine distribution ring.
Lucita Uy, banked at least $10 million and used her own renegade pharmacies to purchase 97,000 pints of prescription-strength cough syrup and smuggle them from California to Houston to make a deadly potion which is popular in the hip-hop world these days.
The Houston Chronicle Reports -
The syrup used in “Purple Drank” goes for $300 to $600 a
pint on the streets of Houston, and was enough to provide at least 1.5
million doses, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.“This is a big case, but I wish it was the only one,” said Sarah Pullen, a spokeswoman for the DEA in Los Angeles. “It would definitely supply a lot of people.”Arrested as the accused ringleader was Lucita Uy, a 70-year-old
grandmother originally from the Philippines. She served 20 months in
federal prison a decade ago for money laundering.
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