RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Police have
arrested a man on suspicion of stealing anti-impotence
drugs from dozens of pharmacies in the past year and
were seeking his accomplice in what they are calling
the "Viagra gang."
"One was arrested and we know the other one's identity
and are looking for him," a Rio de Janeiro police
spokesman said on Wednesday.
The men are suspected of holding up more than 35
pharmacies in the same drugstore chain. Police said
they stole anti-impotence drugs such as Viagra as well
as money from registers. The chain estimated its
losses at some $220,000.
Police said the partners sold the drugs on the black
market and were so successful that they drew criticism
from an unlikely source -- the criminal underworld.
Taped phone conversations show members of a powerful
drug gang from the same slum where the two lived
complaining that their illicit business was drawing
too much police attention to the shantytown near Rio's
famed Copacabana Beach.
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