A daring robbery of antidepressant pills

Hartford : CT : USA | Mar 17, 2010 at 5:23 AM PDT

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A daring well planned and orchestrated robbery of antidepressant pills from the warehouses of the reputed pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly & Co. in Hartford, Connecticut has astonished the police – the robbers cut a hole in the roof, made their entry and disabled the alarm systems. The team of thieves selected a rainy night; they scaled the stone walls, entered through the hole in the roof and took their time loading the delivery trucks with the loots. They made away with nearly US$75 million worth of antidepressant pills Prozac, Cymbalta and antipsychotic Zyprexa. The destination is presumed to be foreign countries and the pills would go into the black market. The FBI has been called in to investigate.

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