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North Carolina man charged in DEA’s largest-ever opioid distribution ring drug bust

Summary by CBS 17
LUMBERTON, N.C. (WBTW) — For nearly six years, Derrick Atkinson allegedly used his position as a pharmaceutical drug sales representative to pump millions of opioids into the greater Houston area at marked-up prices, falsifying compliance regulations to hide their acts. The Lumberton man was among a dozen people arrested last October in what the U.S. Department of Justice said was the largest operation of its kind --- centered around the illegal…

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WBTW broke the news in on Monday, March 24, 2025.
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