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i found this interesting read. mind blowing really.
Cargo theft not just a U.S. concern
October 24, 2013 | By Eric Palmer
The spectacular, $90 million burglary of a warehouse full of Eli Lilly ($LLY) drugs in 2010 continues to be in the news as some of the two dozen suspects get charged or convicted. But the U.S. is not the only place where major pharmaceutical cargo theft happens. Denmark's Novo Nordisk ($NVO) is worried about its reputation as Internet sites sell the human growth hormone that it produces, which is particularly popular with weightlifters. Some of it is inevitably counterfeit, Novo Nordisk spokesperson Kaj Møller tells The Copenhagen Post. But the drugmaker believes some of it is real and likely came from "two major thefts," one this year and another in 2008, Møller said. The newspaper indicates that Denmark is known for the sale and use of muscle enhancing drugs among its weightlifting culture but that law enforcement authorities, like those around the world, find it difficult to stop because the drugs are sold through websites in other countries. In 2010, Amed Villa was part of a brassy warehouse heist that stunned the industry. Villa and others broke into an Eli Lilly ($LLY) warehouse in Connecticut and drove away in the middle of the night with about $90 million worth of Lilly drugs. But Villa now acknowledges he had practice ripping off drug companies.
The Cuban citizen pleaded guilty to the Lilly burglary in July. But Monday, Villa also admitted to stealing more than $13.3 million worth of inhalers from a GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) warehouse in Colonial Heights, VA, the year before, according to a CBS New York report. He also pleaded guilty to stealing about $10 million worth of cell phones and cigarettes in two other burglaries in other states. DNA found on water bottles left at the Lilly and Glaxo scenes linked Amed Villa to both of those crimes.
The 49-year-old Villa is slated to be sentenced Dec. 4 and faces up to 60 years in prison. His brother, Amaury Villa, has pleaded not guilty to the Lilly burglary but earlier pleaded guilty to possessing drugs stolen from the warehouse and was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. He is appealing the sentence. When the feds made the arrests in May 2012, they rounded up 23 suspects they claim had been part of different burglaries around the country. They also recovered most of the stolen drugs.
Cargo theft not just a U.S. concern
October 24, 2013 | By Eric Palmer
The spectacular, $90 million burglary of a warehouse full of Eli Lilly ($LLY) drugs in 2010 continues to be in the news as some of the two dozen suspects get charged or convicted. But the U.S. is not the only place where major pharmaceutical cargo theft happens. Denmark's Novo Nordisk ($NVO) is worried about its reputation as Internet sites sell the human growth hormone that it produces, which is particularly popular with weightlifters. Some of it is inevitably counterfeit, Novo Nordisk spokesperson Kaj Møller tells The Copenhagen Post. But the drugmaker believes some of it is real and likely came from "two major thefts," one this year and another in 2008, Møller said. The newspaper indicates that Denmark is known for the sale and use of muscle enhancing drugs among its weightlifting culture but that law enforcement authorities, like those around the world, find it difficult to stop because the drugs are sold through websites in other countries. In 2010, Amed Villa was part of a brassy warehouse heist that stunned the industry. Villa and others broke into an Eli Lilly ($LLY) warehouse in Connecticut and drove away in the middle of the night with about $90 million worth of Lilly drugs. But Villa now acknowledges he had practice ripping off drug companies.
The Cuban citizen pleaded guilty to the Lilly burglary in July. But Monday, Villa also admitted to stealing more than $13.3 million worth of inhalers from a GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) warehouse in Colonial Heights, VA, the year before, according to a CBS New York report. He also pleaded guilty to stealing about $10 million worth of cell phones and cigarettes in two other burglaries in other states. DNA found on water bottles left at the Lilly and Glaxo scenes linked Amed Villa to both of those crimes.
The 49-year-old Villa is slated to be sentenced Dec. 4 and faces up to 60 years in prison. His brother, Amaury Villa, has pleaded not guilty to the Lilly burglary but earlier pleaded guilty to possessing drugs stolen from the warehouse and was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. He is appealing the sentence. When the feds made the arrests in May 2012, they rounded up 23 suspects they claim had been part of different burglaries around the country. They also recovered most of the stolen drugs.