Claremont woman accused of buying So Cal pharmacies to sell cough syrups as street drug in Texas

From the Associated Press:

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a 70-year-old Claremont woman and her son are among four people indicted for money laundering as part of a narcotics scheme to send a powerful and often-abused cough syrup from California to Texas, where it was sold for the street concoction “purple drank.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement that Lucita Uy of has been indicted for buying three pharmacies so she could purchase more than 97,000 pints of Promethazine for the wholesale price of about $9.
On the streets of Houston, where the drug is especially popular, the same bottle can go for as much as $600.
Uy and her son, Lemuel Libano, have pleaded not guilty to two money laundering charges apiece and are scheduled to start trial Nov. 29.

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