Man, 77, meant to promote ill-gotten erectile medicine in sprawling Florida retirement group, feds say

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Federal authorities have arrested a 77-year-old man for allegedly shopping for greater than $1,800 in erectile dysfunction medicine and not using a prescription and meaning to promote them within the large central Florida retirement group The Villages and elsewhere.

The person was arrested final month in The Villages, the place he lives alongside practically 80,000 fulltime residents and which was featured within the 2020 documentary “Some Form of Heaven.”

The defendant has pleaded not responsible to the misdemeanor cost and agreed to have his case heard earlier than a Justice of the Peace choose as a substitute of a jury. If convicted, he faces as much as a yr in federal jail and a tremendous of as much as $10,000.

In court docket filings, prosecutors allege that the person obtained greater than $1,800 price of erectile dysfunction medicine that had been shipped by way of interstate commerce. The medicine had been misbranded as a result of the person obtained them and not using a legitimate prescription, in line with federal authorities.

The Villages is not any stranger to tales in regards to the intercourse lives of its residents. Rumors about swingers, public intercourse and excessive charges of sexually transmitted illnesses have swirled across the retirement haven for many years. However a report by the Tampa Bay Instances final yr mentioned that the three counties containing The Villages tended to have considerably decrease charges of sexually transmitted illnesses in comparison with Florida general.