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Kansas City, MO —
A man convicted of stealing almost 100,000 oxycodone, Oxycontin and other pills from four area pharmacies, including one in Independence, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Tommy Haubrich, 40, of Philadelphia, also is a previously convicted felon for, among other things, having escaped from jail in Lafayette County. U.S. District Judge Greg Kays sentenced him on Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison without the chance for parole.
According to the office of the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, the pharmacy robberies occurred over a period of just more than seven months, from late May 2010 to early January 2011 and were at two pharmacies in Kansas City, one in Lee’s Summit and – on New Year’s Day 2011 – at the Walgreens at 1536 E. 23rd St. in Independence. In the Independence robbery alone, approximately 19,000 pills of Ritalin, Percocet, Oxycontin, morphine, hydrocodone and alprazolam were stolen.
Altogether, in the four burglaries, more than 1 million dosage units of oxycodone, alprazolam, hydrocodone, Oxycontin, Ritalin, Percocet, morphine and some controlled-substance liquids were taken.
Haubrich and two co-defendants – Dustin Dean-Salem Kinnison, 27, of Kansas City and Tufue Tua, 32, of Lee’s Summit – pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to burglarize or try to burglarize at least eight pharmacies or pharmacy supply businesses. Of the nearly 100,000 pills they took – with a street value of $1.44 million – only about one-quarter were recovered. Kinnison was sentenced to 10 years and three months in federal prison without parole. Tua was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.
Haubrich had pleaded guilty to the burglaries and to a drug-trafficking conspiracy and last December was being held in the Lafayette County jail. On Dec. 10, he escaped, using a Sawsall blade to get through a door, then getting through ductwork and finding a vent with access to the roof, then jumping from the roof to the ground 20 feet below. He was arrested in St. Louis three days later. He and four others were charged in a federal indictment stemming from the escape, and all have pleaded guilty.
A man convicted of stealing almost 100,000 oxycodone, Oxycontin and other pills from four area pharmacies, including one in Independence, has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Tommy Haubrich, 40, of Philadelphia, also is a previously convicted felon for, among other things, having escaped from jail in Lafayette County. U.S. District Judge Greg Kays sentenced him on Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison without the chance for parole.
According to the office of the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, the pharmacy robberies occurred over a period of just more than seven months, from late May 2010 to early January 2011 and were at two pharmacies in Kansas City, one in Lee’s Summit and – on New Year’s Day 2011 – at the Walgreens at 1536 E. 23rd St. in Independence. In the Independence robbery alone, approximately 19,000 pills of Ritalin, Percocet, Oxycontin, morphine, hydrocodone and alprazolam were stolen.
Altogether, in the four burglaries, more than 1 million dosage units of oxycodone, alprazolam, hydrocodone, Oxycontin, Ritalin, Percocet, morphine and some controlled-substance liquids were taken.
Haubrich and two co-defendants – Dustin Dean-Salem Kinnison, 27, of Kansas City and Tufue Tua, 32, of Lee’s Summit – pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy to burglarize or try to burglarize at least eight pharmacies or pharmacy supply businesses. Of the nearly 100,000 pills they took – with a street value of $1.44 million – only about one-quarter were recovered. Kinnison was sentenced to 10 years and three months in federal prison without parole. Tua was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.
Haubrich had pleaded guilty to the burglaries and to a drug-trafficking conspiracy and last December was being held in the Lafayette County jail. On Dec. 10, he escaped, using a Sawsall blade to get through a door, then getting through ductwork and finding a vent with access to the roof, then jumping from the roof to the ground 20 feet below. He was arrested in St. Louis three days later. He and four others were charged in a federal indictment stemming from the escape, and all have pleaded guilty.
