Florida Pharmacist Caught Running Drug Mill

Earlier this week, a pharmacist in Volusia county was accused of reselling on the street prescription pills he had stolen from his work. On Tuesday morning, Michael Lomangio (41 years old) and Allina Kirkland Michaud (28 years old) were arrested by investigators.

Deputies said the pair was arrested when a sheriff’s deputy pulled over their pickup truck in DeLand and found 253 prescription pills, a trace amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia inside. Lomangino’s home in Edgewater was also searched by narcotic agents and found what they described as “a veritable home pharmacy.” The house contained a variety of prescription drugs, including oxycodone, Xanax and Valium. More than 5,700 pills, a loaded handgun, and nearly $5,000 in cash were found in the home.

When asked by deputies, Lomangino did admit to stealing some of the pills from Steve’s Pharmacy in Daytona Beach, where he works as a licensed pharmacist. The owner of Steve's Pharmacy, Tim Jobson, said he has worked with Lomangino for 10 years and never doubted the honesty and integrity of him.
"You really don't know the nightmare I'm going through right at the moment," said Jobson. "I find it extremely hard to believe that this has occurred and to the extent that I just found out.” Jobson said he installed cameras in the store when pharmacies became targets for criminals. "No, I would just never in a million, trillion years think that Michael would have done something like this," said Jobson.
Investigators are still determining how Lomangino obtained the rest of the narcotics.

Officers said Lomangino told them that Kirkland-Michaud , his accomplice, has a drug addiction and that she fuels it by selling various prescription drugs on the street or trading them for Kirkland-Michaud's drug of choice, roxycodone. He said he stole other drugs to sell or trade for the roxycodone because his pharmacy on Mason Avenue doesn't keep much of it in stock, said investigators. Deputies confirmed that Kirkland-Michaud told them that Lomangino was a major drug kingpin in the New Smyrna Beach area and that she knew he was using his job at the pharmacy to feed her drug habit.

The pair faces charges of trafficking in hydrocodone, trafficking in oxycodone, possession of a Schedule III narcotic, possession of a Schedule IV narcotic and possession of drug paraphernalia. Currently both are in jail and bail for Lomangino is set at $552,500 and Kirkland-Michaud's bail is set at $527,500.
The case is still under investigation and additional charges are pending, deputies said.

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