Akhil Bansal, a daredevil driver, in his red Ford Mustang. Now, the Temple grad student was assuming a central role in his family’s illegal online drug business, seeking ties to a Costa Rica-based enterprise.
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DrugNet, Chapter 3: The PowerPoint
A big deal hinges on a screen test. The feds' team fans out, and can't believe what it sees.
The agents started laughing.
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"... 27, 28. Oh, my gosh, 29, 30! I think they're done. 30 bags!"
They did the math: 30 bags, each with 20 smaller packages inside. That meant UPS had loaded about 600 packages. The average online pharmacy order was 100 tabs.
The Indians had just shipped roughly 60,000 pills illegally.
"Unbelievable," Kelliher said.
Another UPS truck appeared.
"I wonder," Konieczny suggested, "if they didn't have enough room in the first one."
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