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FDLE said the bust is part of “Operation Pain Killer,” an aggressive five-month investigation targeting Central Florida prescription drug traffickers.

“They were writing prescriptions for people who didn't need the pain pills,” MBI director Phil Williams said.

Dr. Roman Mosai did not say anything to WFTV’s cameras after he was arrested for trafficking prescription drugs. However, Dr. Michael Moyer defended his actions as he was being led away in handcuffs (video | images).

“Yes, I did. There's a medical reason for it, people who are in pain. Doctors make a judgment to treat with pain medication. They give them reaction on how to take the medication. We are not responsible for patients who did not take the medication as directed,” Moyer said.

The two doctors are part of an aggressive five-month investigation called “Operation Pain Killer,” targeting Central Florida prescription drug traffickers. The doctors, along with suspected traffickers and users, were taken into custody. FDLE, along with several other agencies, say prescription drugs are a growing problem in Florida.

The investigation focused on traffickers in Orange, Lake, Seminole and Osceola counties who investigators said sold prescription medications they had illegally obtained by visiting “pill mills” in Central and South Florida. The majority of the people were charged with trafficking narcotics.

The investigation focused on traffickers who sold narcotics after they illegally obtained pills from pain clinics, like the ones run by Moyer and Mosai.

Michael Moyer, 59, of Michael Moyer MD PA in Orange County, was charged with two counts of trafficking in hydrocodone, which is a first-degree felony. Roman Mosai, 62, of Westside Medical Clinic in Orange County, was charged with three counts of trafficking in hydrocodone.

Investigators say oxycodone sells for $15 a pill, hydrocodone goes for $4 a piece and dizapam is $3.

“These individual were prescribing pain medication to various types of people who had no identifiable medical necessities,” Williams said.

Dr. Moyer said he did not do anything wrong and claims the patients needed his help.

“There are also real people in pain. The real person has to work, they have to support their family and only way they work is with these medications,” Moyer stated.

Agents said they confiscated more than 20,000 pills (see images) from four different counties.

Investigators say prescription drugs are a bigger problem than heroin and cocaine. WFTV learned that during the first six months of 2009, 1,157 people died statewide as a result of prescription drug overdose.

Officials say prescription drugs like oxycodone and hydrocodone are becoming the drug of choice. In 2008 there were 172 deaths in Orange and Osceola County related to prescription drugs. This number far exceeds the 58 deaths that were related to cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

“You can look at this as medical heroin. Things are prescribed as pain. It has the same effect as heroin has on an individual,” Williams said.

DRUG ARRESTS BECOME FAMILY AFFAIR

More than doctors were arrested in the bust. WFTV found a 68-year-old grandmother was arrested for drug trafficking, along with members of her family, at her home.

VIDEO REPORT: Grandmother Arrested

The woman's landlord was shocked. He didn't know about the arrests until WFTV told him.

Joan Hobdy is a mother, grandmother, and state investigators say she's a drug trafficker who was dealing in large quantities of oxycodone from her Winter Garden home.

"I'm her husband, [and] I'd rather not talk to you," Roland Hobdy said.

Roland Hobdy did tell WFTV that agents moved in, arrested her, their son, Edward Hobdy, and grandson Cody Hobdy.

"Was she selling drugs?” WFTV reporter Jeff Deal asked.

“I ain't gonna say because I don't think she was," Roland replied.

The arrests appeared to have been a family affair that has neighbors who knew Joan Hobdy wondering why a 68-year-old grandmother would be involved in something like this.

"Oh my God, are you serious?" one neighbor said.

The neighbor, who didn't want to be identified, said they seemed like a nice family.

"They would leave at the wee hours of the night, but I thought they were going to play bingo or something," the neighbor said.

Hobdy's husband admitted she uses medications, but said he doesn't know what kind and denied any knowledge of what his family members are accused of doing.

"Go talk to them down there,” Roland said. “They'll tell you."

WFTV put in a request to interview Mrs. Hobdy at the jail, but have not received a response.

All the three of the suspects remain locked up on drug trafficking charges.