Man Accused of Trading Vicodin for Sexual Favors

A pharmacist 70 years of age pleaded innocent to charges of stealing prescription painkillers and trading them for sexual favors.

Police said they began investigating P. Lussier after receiving tips that he was trading Vicodin, an addictive pain reliever, to a woman in her 30s in exchange for sex.

Detective Sgt. S. H. said Lussier was carrying 100 pills when they arrested him as he left work at a Brooks Pharmacy in Palmer, Massachusetts on Wednesday evening.

Lussier was arraigned Thursday on charges including drug trafficking and larceny of a controlled substance. He was ordered held on $100,000 bail.

Police said they found thousands of prescription pills, including Oxycontin, Oxycodone and Viagra, when they searched Lussier's home on Wednesday. They also found two .38-caliber handguns, Haley said.

Lussier's lawyer, Brian L. Blackburn, said his client has not been charged with any offenses in 21 years.

In 1984, Lussier, then the owner of a Springfield pharmacy, received two years' probation after pleading guilty to two counts of illegally dispensing the painkiller Percodan. In 1977, he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to selling thousands of dollars' worth of stimulants and depressants to undercover narcotics agents.

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