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In July 2006, New Jersey law enforcement officers broke a major, youth-run drug ring in New Jersey, rounding up more than 50 teens and young adults in connection with the illegal sale of prescription drugs. The drug ring was reportedly making sales of $50,000 per month of the prescription painkiller Oxycodone, mostly to other students and alumni of the local high school.

Those arrested in July included recent graduates of the local high school and star athletes. At the center of the ring was a baby-faced 18-year-old named Evan Rokoszak. At a sentencing in 2007 related to the big drug bust, a New Jersey State Superior Court Presiding Criminal Judge described the teens' activities as "a large-scale drug distribution syndicate," adding that the abuse of prescription drugs "is not so much a plague on our society as a cancer that continues to grow."

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Posted By: Aspen Education Group