Thieves scaled a wall at a pharmaceutical warehouse during the weekend, cut a hole in the roof and rappelled inside to steal about $70 million in antidepressants and other prescription drugs, authorities said today.
The thieves disabled the alarm at the Eli Lilly & Co. warehouse early Sunday in Enfield, where they spent at least an hour loading pallets of drugs into a waiting vehicle at the warehouse’s loading dock during a wind-whipped rainstorm, police said.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Sophisticated heist nets $70 million in Lilly drugs in Connecticut
The Indianapolis Star reports:
