Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Taylor County Sheriffs Department arrested 18 people for the drug trafficking of prescriptions pills. The arrests came after a nine month investigation into the the issue.

The sheriffs department received tips that individuals were traveling to central Florida and paying doctors to write illegal prescriptions for pain killers, muscle relaxants and anti-anxiety pills in large quantities.The individuals would then fill them at different pharmacies and take them back to Taylor County to be sold.

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