Courier Charged with Stealing Prescription Meds Bound for Care Centers
The drugs included pain and anxiety medications such as OxyContin, fentanyl, hydrocodone and alprazolam.
A courier stole a shipment of prescription medication he was supposed to deliver to health-care centers in Columbia and Osage Beach, Town and Country Police Department. The drugs included OxyContin, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam, Lorazepam and several other controlled substances. A police report stated Mota Ries, 35, a courier for a logistics company serving NHC Healthcare, was supposed to take prescription medication from the company’s Town and Country location to centers in mid-Missouri on April 11. When his supervisor passed him on Interstate 44, he called Mota to ask why he wasn’t going to Columbia first. Ries replied he “wanted to see the route to Osage Beach in the daylight,” according to a police report. Later, it was…
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