Pills, Guns and Missile Launchers

According to an article published in today's Sun Sentinel officers of the Broward Sheriff's Office raided the office and home of the Pompano Beach pain clinic owners Frank and Bernice Turturo and discovered, among other items, $250,000 in cash, gold coins and nuggets, two short-barreled assault rifles, a portable rocket launcher case and a tiny .22-caliber pistol that would fit in a brassiere. During a news conference at BSO's Fort Lauderdale headquarters today , Sheriff Al Lamberti called the firearms array "scary" and "sophisticated" and "not the day-to-day, target practice weapons you'd normally see." It does not surprise me that pain clinics in South Florida are operating in the criminal underworld of racketeering and drug trafficking . Guns are the necessary accessories required to intimidate anyone probing these shady businesses. Our law enforcement officers need more resources to crack down on drug traffickers and drug dealers in white coats. Yours Bernd