A New York man has been arrested for supposedly selling illegal prescription drugs from his ice cream truck, making more than $1 million in a year, prosecutors said. Louis Scala sold ice cream to children from his “Lickity Split” truck and would allegedly make stops at prearranged acne where customers knew they could buy pills, according to the New York Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
Scala, 40, is accused of selling more than 40,000 prescription oxycodone pills from his ice cream truck in the municipality of Staten Island and heading up a 30-person drug ring that included more than two dozen runners to fill fake prescriptions, prosecutors said. Another suspect, Nancy Wilkins, is accused of using her position as an assistant at a Manhattan orthopedic office to steal blank prescription pads and supposedly sell them for $100 a page, prosecutors said. The phony prescriptions would be filled by runners who would be paid in cash or in pills, they said. The circle earned more than $1 million in the past year, sometimes charging up to $20 for a single pill.