Volusia pharmacist arrested, accused of pill trafficking

Investigators said they've arrested the pain pill kingpin of Volusia County. But he isn't just any street dealer: the suspect is a pharmacist.

Deputies arrested Michael Lomangino when they found some pills during a traffic stop on Tuesday.

Around 2:30 a.m., deputies caught Lomangino running two stop signs in DeLand. They found 253 prescription pills and marijuana in his truck. They arrested him and Allina Kirkland-Michaud. She told investigators that Lomangino is a drug kingpin in the New Smyrna Beach area.

Then investigators went to his Edgewater home and found cash, a gun and more than 5,700 pills, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, morphine, codeine, Valium, Xanax, morphine and more.

Lomangino has been a licensed pharmacist for 20 years. For more than 10 of those years, he worked at Steve's Pharmacy in Daytona Beach where we interviewed him in 2006.

Tim Jobson runs the mom-and-pop operation and is still absorbing the news that his trusted employee went to jail.

"I'm just very very upset about it because I never, I would have guaranteed that this would have never happened," Jobson said.

Detectives said he admitted to stealing some from his workplace and other places, and selling them. But as for how, several agencies including the DEA are still trying to find that out.

"He's a pharmacist. He fills these pills all day long, just like I'm doing right now," Jobson said.

Lomangino admitted to feeding Kirkland-Michaud's need for oxycodone by trading and selling the pills he got from several places, including this pharmacy where he worked. WFTV asked Jobson if he does inventory.

"Oh sure, but you don't usually take an inventory unless there's something wrong, and there was no reason to think there was anything wrong here," Jobson said.

Lomangino and Michaud are in jail, and they would have to pay about $500,000 in bond each to get out.

They're charged with trafficking prescription pills and possession, but they could face more charges.