$800,000 OxyContin Shipment Lost or Stolen in New Jersey
A shipment of a powerful prescription painkiller is missing, and the air freight courier says the shipment could have been lost or stolen.
Nine cases of OxyContin, valued at about $800,000, were to be shipped Thursday to a company in southern New Jersey, Emery spokesman James Allen said. The drugs never arrived.
“We move a lot of boxes, and unfortunately sometimes they get lost,” Allen said.
He said the company had notified police and was interviewing employees about the shipment.
It was unclear how many pills were in the shipment.
OxyContin is a slow-release painkiller. One pill is designed to last 12 hours, but abusers crush it and snort or inject it, producing a quick, heroin-like high.
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