ORLANDO, Fla. -- Federal and local agents raided a Spanish grocery store Tuesday morning and arrested the owner and his brother for selling hundreds of illegal drugs that could be harmful to the public.

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First of all, the store is not a licensed pharmacy, but the owner was selling all sorts of drugs to treat medical problems. However, many of the drugs confiscated are considered contraband. One woman was hospitalized after taking an illegal antibiotic.

Owner Jose Rodriguez and his brother Ramon had nothing to say as police arrested them outside the Plaza Mexico Spanish grocery in Orlando. For more than an hour, employees of the store waited outside for answers while customers and deliveries were suddenly turned away after hundreds of imported drugs were uncovered inside the store that should never have been sold.

"The ones we confiscated are all illegal in the U.S. Based on intelligence we, got all were imported from Mexico and brought into the U.S. illegally," said an undercover officer with the Orlando Police Department.

Customs agents were conducting their own federal investigation to try to track down the distributors. Since none of the drugs were FDA approved and were said to be made in unsanitary labs, they could be dangerous.

One customer took the Spanish version of ampicillin, an antibiotic, and was rushed to Florida Hospital East with a severe allergic reaction. That's how police eventually found out about the illegal drugs and began a series of undercover buys.

"On one of the undercover operations, the owner said this is a prescription drug not brought into the U.S. and you have to have a prescription," the undercover officer said.

Many of the drugs were also sold without the prescriptions they require and, in order to be sold in the U.S., any drug must be packaged in English as well as Spanish.

The FDA inspected the drugs and even the Department of Agriculture was called in after agents found meat left out on the counters and several health violations. But the illegal drugs were the biggest concern and not at all unique to the store.

"It's become a very large problem in the Orlando area," the undercover officer said.

Police said they were seeing it a lot in smaller grocery stores that cater to Hispanics. In Mexico, drugs, like antibiotics, can be bought over the counter, but not here in the U.S.

The store remains open for now, but the kitchen was closed. The owner and his brother face charges of dispensing drugs without a license, practicing as a pharmacy without a license and the sale and delivery of contraband. If it happens again, agents will shut down the store for good.