US Federal authorities have arrested a former Minister of Health of Guyana, Dr. Noel Blackman who they suspect illegally prescribed vast amounts of the pain killer oxycodone in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three states.

According to reports, Blackman was on board a jet taxiing on the runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday night when federal agents ordered the plane back to the gate to arrest him.

An Associated Press report said that federal agents were tipped off that Blackman planned to leave the country permanently and therefore ordered the jet bound for Guyana to return as it was taxiing for takeoff.

Officials say US$30,000 was stashed in his luggage.

Blackman was charged on Monday with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Records show he wrote 114 prescriptions in 2014 for about 3,800 oxycodone pills and nearly 2,500 prescriptions for about 365,000 pills last year.

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