DEBARY -- Another suspect in a pill-pushing ring has been arrested, the Volusia Sheriff's Office said, bringing the total arrests to 17.
Scott E. Davis, 47, DeBary, turned himself in to Sergeant Virgil Ford at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office's DeBary headquarters at about 10:20 a.m. Saturday. Davis was charged with trafficking in hydrocodone and obtaining or attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud. He was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach and is being held on $150,000 bond.
Sheriff's investigators have now arrested a total of 17 people in connection with this case -- the ringleader, John Davey, who has been in
custody since Oct. 2, the 15 defendants rounded up on Friday and Davis.
With the accused mastermind of a massive pill-pushing criminal enterprise behind bars on $1 million bond, Volusia County Sheriff's
investigators started dismantling the rest of the organization on Friday. By mid-morning, a total of 15 more suspects had been rounded up.
It was all part of a large-scale investigation -- dubbed Operation Oxy-Clean -- targeting a DeBary-based network that bought pharmaceutical
drugs with phony prescriptions and then sold the pills on the street for a whopping profit, Sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson said.
On one DeBary street alone, Angeles Road, deputies nabbed nine suspects Friday morning with ties to the organization. The investigation is ongoing and more arrests are expected.