Crime | Oxycodone NYC Busts Drug-Dealing Ice Cream Truck Oxycodone sellers licked By Rob Quinn Posted Mar 18, 2011 1:29 PM CDT Copied "Oh no!" said a neighbor. "My kids bought ice cream every day last summer. It's horrible, scary, that they were moving drugs. This is a close-knit community. We never suspected." (Shutterstock) In New York City's Staten Island, oxycodone addicts were more enthusiastic than little kids about the arrival of the Lickety Split ice cream truck: Some 31 people have been indicted for running a drug ring that investigators say used the ice cream truck to sell the addictive prescription painkiller—and that pulled in $1 million, reports the New York Daily News. Police say the ice cream truck's operators would serve ice creams to children before conducting their more profitable business, selling some 42,755 pills at $20 a pop. The case is "symptomatic of a dangerous drug epidemic” that has hit New York, police said in a statement: “the skyrocketing rates of prescription opiate use and abuse." Around 1 million prescriptions for oxycodone were filled in the city last year, click here for that story. Read These Next Gavin Newsom has filed a massive lawsuit against Fox News. Trumps ends trade talks with Canada. New York Times ranks the best movies of the 21st century. White House rolls with Trump's 'daddy' nickname. Report an error