Agents said they noticed a spike in the amount of narcotics being delivered to the East Main Street Pharmacy over the last six months.

The pharmacy's license was immediately suspended, but the pharmacy owner has not been charged with any crime, Hirsch reported.

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Agents spent most of the afternoon taking inventory and removing all the controlled substances from the pharmacy. 

They said they believe the pharmacy owner and pharmacist, Eugene Fletcher, was filling prescriptions illegally.

Investigators said many of the customers drove hours from different parts of Ohio and out of state, to get their prescriptions filled at Fletcher's pharmacy.

"They're having to drive up to 200 miles, bypassing numerous pharmacies along the way, in order to have these prescriptions filled," said agent Kathy Chaney.We noticed that this pharmacy was filling an exorbitant number of narcotic prescriptions and many, many of the patients were, again, from southern Ohio and northern Kentucky."

"The DEA felt that the business activity being conducted at the pharmacy was an eminent danger to the public health and safety," Chaney said.

Hirsch reported that customers showed up Thursday from Portsmouth, Ohio, and Kentucky.

Most of them said that their doctors told them to go to that business, Hirsch reported.

But community members said they did not believe Fletcher would knowingly do anything illegal.

Through his attorney, Fletcher denied the allegations.

"They'll take all the bad facts and they'll focus on them like 'Okay, he should've known.  He's not a mind reader," said Fletcher's attorney Brad Barbin. "They've shut down a business that's been here for the community."

"They are real people with real medications and real doctors, and that's all he fills," Barbin said.

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