Sunnysider Caught up in Drug Ring
Disgraced labor leader Brian McLaughlin’s son and dozens of others were busted in a takedown of a sprawling network of pill-pushers working out of a Queens gay club.
The defendants – including a mother and her two sons and 16-year-old daughter, a club owner and a bartender – dealt in prescription painkillers like Vicodin and Oxycodone and street drugs like Ecstasy and pot.
Robert McLaughlin, 26, faces nine years in prison for allegedly selling pharmaceuticals out of his Sunnyside apartment.
Brian McLaughlin, 57, is serving 10 years for stealing $3.1 million from Little Leaguers, lawmakers and his own union while a Queens assemblyman.
His son was snared in a two-year NYPD probe of two loose-knit drug rings that sold mountains of pills prized by partiers – including the animal tranquilizer Ketamine, the stimulant Adderall and heroin substitute Suboxone.
“Drugs such as Vicodin and Oxycodone are extremely potent and have a high potential for abuse and death,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
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