False alarm; suspected pseudoephedrine actually prenatal vitamins

It was reported earlier today elsewhere in the media that about a million dollars worth of suspected pseudoephedrine were confiscated from a house in the Lake Independence area on Thursday night. According to the sensational report, the drug was the property of the Ministry of Health and had been stashed there for over a year. But checks today by News Five with authorities have revealed otherwise. What we have confirmed is that forty boxes of medicines, part of a shipment that arrived on Wednesday, were indeed removed by the police from the house of forty-two year old Herman Miranda senior, but they were prenatal medication, which do not contain pseudoephedrine. The interesting part, however, is that it belongs to the Ministry of Health and it was stored at Miranda’s house by a customs broker. News Five tried to reach the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Health, Dr Peter Allen, to explain why no storeroom was secured for the medicines but we could not reach him.