Billion dollar drug bust in Texas has ties to Missouri

Eleven million pills, with a street value between ten-to-thirty dollars each. 

That’s what a Missouri man pled guilty to supplying to a Texas drug ring. 

Eric Bailey, of St. Louis County, was one of the suppliers to a billion-dollar Houston based drug ring. 

Kim Daniels, with the St. Louis Drug Enforcement Administration, says Bailey should have been aware the drugs he was supplying were for illegal purposes.

“The only drugs they were ordering from EMED were hydrocodone and oxycodone in exorbitant amounts for many, many times what these pharmacies could pay at other wholesalers. Yes, Bailey should have known,” Daniels says.

Daniels adds that Bailey, as a federally-registered distributor, was obligated to notify federal law enforcement of suspicious purchases and not fill the orders. 

Instead, he knowingly supplied the Houston pharmacies with Oxycodone and Hydrocodone which then went to drug traffickers and pill mills.