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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A drug distribution ring that flooded Connecticut and the Boston area with OxyContin has been broken up.

Five people from New Jersey -- including a father and his two sons -- have pleaded guilty to running an illegal drug selling operation involving the powerful painkiller.

Louis Gallicchio Senior and his two sons, Nicholas and Michael, entered the pleas ye...

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(Newark, N.J.-AP, Nov. 3, 2005 5:32 AM) _ A drug distribution ring that flooded Connecticut and the Boston area with OxyContin has been broken up.

Five people -- including a father and his two sons -- have pleaded guilty to running an illegal drug selling operation involvi...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Five people including a father and his two sons pleaded guilty Wednesday to running an illegal drug distribution ring that flooded Connecticut and the Boston area with the powerful painkiller OxyContin.

Louis Gallicchio Sr., 65, and his two sons Nicholas, 38, and Michael, 36, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy, as did Nicholas Gallicchio’s girlfr...

NEWARK, N.J. A drug distribution ring that flooded the Boston area and Connecticut with OxyContin has been broken up.

Five people from New Jersey -- including a father and his two sons -- have pleaded guilty to running an illegal drug selling operation involving the powerful painkiller.

Louis Gallicchio Senior and his two sons, Nicholas and Michael, entered the pleas yesterday in federal ...

They admitted before U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano that they purchased the pills in the Newark area, and that Love and Amarilla transported them to Connecticut and Massachusetts to be sold to other drug dealers between April 2002 and November 2004.

The drug conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a $1 million fine.

The government also is se...

One woman charged in Anderson sheriff's raid of Lake City home

LAKE CITY - Even as Anderson County deputies searched a Lake City man's home for narcotics Tuesday afternoon, prospective customers wanting to buy pain pills continued to call and drive up, Sheriff Bill White said.

Three of those would-be OxyContin buyers drove up to Rodger D. Duncan's home with small children strappe...