Selling too much cold medicine: either jail time or civil fines

[The Straight Story]

Six Store Employees Arrested in San Joaquin Meth Drug Sweep

Federal indictments issued Friday resulted in the arrests of six people -- workers at two liquor stores in Manteca and Stockton where authorities said customers were able to buy excessive quantities of cold medications to extract the psuedoephedrine for use in meth manufacturing.

The indictments charged Manteca residents Anjinder Singh, 36; Jaswant Kaur, 53; Sucha Singh, 52; and Gurminder Singh, 24 with selling unlawful amounts of the cold medications at Manteca Liquor at 2189 E. Yosemite Avenue in Manteca. Also arrested were Paul Pannu, 38, and Navneet Judge, 31, in connection with sales at a Stockton Quik Stop as well as Delta Liquors, 519 W. Charter Way in Stockton.

"In one store, we bought 72 boxes," assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Grad said. "We went back and bought 12 boxes, then half an hour later, 11 more boxes. We had phone negotiations where they said they could get us what we wanted."

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Grad said clerks in nine other Stockton area stores were also accused of selling illegal amounts of the drug. Those suspects will be handled through civil proceedings because the amounts of pseudoephedrine sold were much smaller.

If convicted, the maximum penalty under federal law for each offense is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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A tad excessive selling 72 boxes at once. However, in the second part they don't define how many is too many.

But at least the cops are keeping busy and they have enough cold medicine to avoid a blue flu :)

[1monster]

1. Heck, I couldn't even get the legal limit of 120 tablets per month

for a family of four, all with serious allergy problems, the last time I tried to buy it. The pharmacy gave me the 120 tablets, but at the check out, the cash register refused to ring up more than 96 tablets...

[Eric J in MN]

2. They should be working with store clerks to inform them

about regulations.

Not entrappng them and arresting them.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Federal trickery.

More people whose lives are ruined on account of the Bush Administration.