http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/l...150016235.htmlInvestigators have arrested two brothers from Cuba in a mysterious $80 million drug caper that included an elaborate scheme complete with repelling rope and disabling the alarm system.Amaury Villa, 37, and Amed Villa, 46, citizens of Cuba who have both been living in Miami, have been charged in connection with the largest pharmaceutical heist in history, as well as the biggest theft in Enfield and state history.The brothers were arrested in Florida on Thursday. Amaury has been charged with possession and sale in Florida. Ahmed has also been charged in Illinois in connection with cigarrette thefts worth $8 million, federal officials said.Federal officials said the brothers staked out the Eli Lilly warehouse in January 2010.Then, as Enfield caught the edges of a nor'easter in March 2010 that battered the region with heavy rain and wind before dawn, thieves made off with enough drugs to fill at least one tractor-trailer, police said.The Villas cut a hole in the roof and disabled the security, officials said.But them Amed touched a water bottle in the facility and left it there, federal authorities said, and surveillance video picked up the brothers.Those drugs were likely headed for the black market and the drug company immediately issued a warning, asking people to watch for tampering on products that might indicate that they were stolen.Authorities said thieves stole antidepressants and other drugs worth at least $75 million wholesale by cutting through the ceiling and rappelling inside. They disarmed the alarms and stole enough pallets of drugs to fill at least one tractor-trailer.Some of the drugs were found in a storage facility in Florida. An indictment charges 11 people with possession and sale of narcotics, some of which were stolen in the Enfield heist, federal officials said.Edward Sagebiel, a spokesman for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, said the drugs included the antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta and the antipsychotic Zyprexa. No narcotics or painkillers were taken, he said.Zyprexa and Cymbalta were Eli Lilly's two best-selling drugs last year. Prozac was Lilly's first billion-dollar drug and the company's top seller before it lost patent protection several years ago."It has the appearances of a sophisticated, well-planned criminal action," said Sagebiel, describing the other missing products as "a mix of pharmaceutical products."A news conference will be held at 2 p.m. in New Haven.More information will be posted once it becomes available.Federal officials said the people charged will not appear in court in Connecticut on Thursday.
