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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 - FEBRUARY 18, 2009 VOLUME 14, NO.13
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DEA Detains Dirty Duarte Doctor Monrovia Police Investigation Leads to DEA Arrest of Arcadia Doctor for Overprescribing Opiate Painkillers
On Feb ruary 10 a physician with a practice in Duarte was arrested on federal narcotics charges for allegedly dispensing powerful and
addictive painkillers, such as oxycodone and hydrocodone, directly out of his office without examining “patients” who instead simply paid him cash for pills. Daniel J. Healy, 52 , who resides in Arcadia, was arrested by DEA at his office without incident. According to a criminal complaint filed last week and unsealed today, Healy allegedly ordered, dispensed and
prescribed huge amounts of prescription painkillers over the past three years to patients he often did not examine. “The abuse of addictive prescription drugs continues to increase in the United States at alarming rates,” said Timothy J. Landrum, Special Agent in Charge. “Between 2004 and 2005, emergency room visits in the U.S. attributed to the non-
Homeless Numbers at Record High
Sierra Mudre Sierra Madre Canyon Residents Get Brunt of the Mudflow Debris Due in Part to County Flood Control Negligence
Homeless Count Taken by Department of Housing & Urban Development
Terry Miller
Los Ang e le s C ou nt y F lood Cont rol workers forgot t o close a gate last Thursday to a debris dam on Yucca Trail in Sier ra Madre, causing serious mud flows during rainstorms last Friday down Woodland Drive near Mary’s Market. The mud flows came from the fire burnt area charred the recent Sierra Madre Fire last summer. The open gate perhaps wasn’t the main reason the area got a good blanketing of the brown
stuff, but it certainly was a contributing factor, according to some neighbors in Sierra Madre Canyon. One resident of Skyland Drive has seen it all before. “You’ve just got to go with the f low... it doesn’t do any good to get upset. This happens nearly every year,” says Andy Dotson as he and a volunteer from the California Conservation Corps help remove the lava-like mud from in front of his home. T he major it y of t he mud was removed by city public works crews using dump trucks and skip loaders - along with a lot of shoveling. Public Works director
medical use of pharmaceuticals increased by more than 25%. Unfortunately, there are a few doctors supplying these drugs that are more interested in profit then the health of their patients.” According to the complaint, Healy drew the attention of DEA when an informant reported that Healy was dispensing controlled subst a nces in excha nge D.D.D.D.D on 24
CCC Members clean up the hillside of Sierra Madre Canyon with the hope of preventing further mudslides. -Photos by Terry Miller
Bruce Inman surveyed the area Saturday and ordered more trucks to help with the huge amount of mud. Meanwhile, approximately 20 California Conservation Corps workers were trying to prevent further flows of the mud high above the home on the 800 block on Skyland. Hundreds of sandbags and barricades Sierra Mudre on 24
Pasadena, like every other community across the country, is experiencing an increase in the numbers of homeless. Rev. Pat O’Reilly, the executive director of the Ecumenical Council of Pasadena Area Churches (ECPAC), says there is a 20% increase in the services that she manages. “This time last year the Bad Weather Shelter, which is the only local cold weather shelter that takes in families, served 130 individuals. This year our numbers have reached more than 170 people on a given night. O’Reilly Homeless on 24