Pharmacy Raided After State Revokes Its License: Report

LEESBURG, VA — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized prescription drugs from a Lansdowne area pharmacy Thursday after the state of Virginia revoked the pharmacy's license to sell presciption drugs. The raid on the Lansdowne Pharmacy, led by the DEA, was part of an administrative action by the Virginia Board of Pharmacy against the pharmacy. No criminal charges have been filed against the pharmacy's owners, although the pharmacy has been ordered to pay a $50,000 fine for alleged illicit opioid distribution., NBC4 reported Thursday.

NBC4 cameras, at the pharmacy at the time of the raid, caught DEA agents and officers from other police agencies carrying boxes full of prescriptions from the store, located on Deerfield Avenue in Leesburg. The DEA was concerned that customers were paying for their prescription drugs with cash and traveling hundreds of miles to get their prescriptions filled. "It's a pharmacy that we have been looking at for a few years," Justin Wood, DEA diversion program manager, told NBC4.

The DEA, Virginia State Police, the Virginia Board of Pharmacy and the Loudoun County Sheriffs Office were part of a task force assigned to investigate the pharmacy, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported Dec. 12.

The Lansdowne Pharmacy will be prohibited indefinitely from selling prescription drugs, but the store will still be able to sell other products in its inventory, according to the newspaper report.