Drug bust at Boeing defence plant
Published:Friday | September 30, 2011 | 1:18 PM
US federal agents have arrested 37 people in a raid on a plant run by the aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
Reports indicated that all but one of those detained are current and former employees at the facility, near Philadelphia, which produces aircrafts for the US military.
It is alleged they were dealing and buying prescription drugs.
Boeing was alerted to the alleged drugs ring by members of staff.
Managers then called in the FBI, whose agents worked undercover at the plant.
US Attorney Zane David Memeger disclosed 23 people have been charged with selling the prescription painkiller Oxycontin among other drugs, while 14 people were charged with attempted possession of various drugs.
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