Thirty-three indicted in multi-state drug scheme

Thirty-three people, in­clud­ing sev­er­al Los Angeles County busi­ness own­ers, have been in­dicted in a scam to sell il­leg­ally ob­tained drugs in Cali­for­nia, Min­nesota, Ohio and Pu­erto Rico. Mihran and Ar­tur Stepan­yan al­legedly sold more than $157 mil­lion of il­leg­al phar­ma­ceut­ic­als, in­clud­ing drugs used to treat can­cer and HIV, to Dav­id Miller’s Min­nesota In­de­pend­ent Co­oper­at­ive.