A brazen, Hollywood-style prescription drug heist in Connecticut, is now being linked to a similar crime in Chesterfield County.
Police say it was like a scene from Mission Impossible. Thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled down and stole 75 million dollars worth of medication. It happened in Enfield, Connecticut, just outside Hartford. And now, investigators say the same criminals were likely responsible for a similar heist in our own backyard. Investigators say no doubt, they are professionals. In addition to the heist in Connecticut, it is believed they hit a warehouse in Memphis, one in Mississippi, and one in Southern Chesterfield.
The one in Chesterfield happened last August at a Glaxosmithkline distribution center. Investigators say thieves cut a hole in the ceiling, used a trapeze-style rigging to lower themselves to the floor, then got away with 25,600 asthma inhalers worth more than $6 Million dollars retail. Then last Sunday -- at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly's warehouse near Hartford, Connecticut, an overnight drug heist investigators believe, by the very same thieves.
"It was a very brazen, well planned crime. It appears as though the criminals broke in through the roof, rappelled down through the roof, disarmed the alarm and then proceeded to steal several dozen pallets of pharmaceutical products which were loaded onto a truck and taken", says Ed Sagabiel with Eli Lilly and Company.
He says they stole $75 million dollars worth of anti-depressants and other prescription pills enough to fill a tractor-trailer --- now headed for the black market.
No word on whether there was surveillance video at the warehouse in Chesterfield, but we do know there was in Connecticut.
What's more, investigators say these thieves must have conducted surveillance of these warehouses on their own for days, if not weeks, before they made their move.
Police say it was like a scene from Mission Impossible. Thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled down and stole 75 million dollars worth of medication. It happened in Enfield, Connecticut, just outside Hartford. And now, investigators say the same criminals were likely responsible for a similar heist in our own backyard. Investigators say no doubt, they are professionals. In addition to the heist in Connecticut, it is believed they hit a warehouse in Memphis, one in Mississippi, and one in Southern Chesterfield.
The one in Chesterfield happened last August at a Glaxosmithkline distribution center. Investigators say thieves cut a hole in the ceiling, used a trapeze-style rigging to lower themselves to the floor, then got away with 25,600 asthma inhalers worth more than $6 Million dollars retail. Then last Sunday -- at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly's warehouse near Hartford, Connecticut, an overnight drug heist investigators believe, by the very same thieves.
"It was a very brazen, well planned crime. It appears as though the criminals broke in through the roof, rappelled down through the roof, disarmed the alarm and then proceeded to steal several dozen pallets of pharmaceutical products which were loaded onto a truck and taken", says Ed Sagabiel with Eli Lilly and Company.
He says they stole $75 million dollars worth of anti-depressants and other prescription pills enough to fill a tractor-trailer --- now headed for the black market.
No word on whether there was surveillance video at the warehouse in Chesterfield, but we do know there was in Connecticut.
What's more, investigators say these thieves must have conducted surveillance of these warehouses on their own for days, if not weeks, before they made their move.
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