Rush Limbaugh Detained With Viagra

Rush Limbaugh could see a deal with prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case collapse after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in his bag at Palm Beach International Airport. The prescription was not in his name.

Limbaugh was detained for more than three hours Monday at the airport after returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic. Customs officials found the Viagra in his luggage but his name was not on the prescription, said Paul Miller, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Miller said the alleged violation could be a second-degree misdemeanor. The sheriff's office was investigating and will soon turn the case over to the state attorney's office, which had no immediate comment Tuesday.

Under the deal reached last month with prosecutors, Limbaugh was not to be arrested for any infraction for 18 months in exchange for authorities deferring a charge of "doctor shopping." Prosecutors had alleged the conservative talk-show host illegally deceived multiple physicians to receive overlapping painkiller prescriptions.

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Limbaugh also must submit to random drug tests and continue treatment for his admitted addiction to painkillers.

Limbaugh's doctor had prescribed the Viagra, but it was "labeled as being issued to the physician rather than Mr. Limbaugh for privacy purposes," Roy Black, Limbaugh's attorney, said in a statement.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection examined the 55-year-old radio commentator's luggage after his private plane landed at the airport, Miller said.

Investigators confiscated the drugs, which treat erectile dysfunction. Limbaugh was released without being charged.

For now, Limbaugh is joking about his brush with the law. He joked about the search on his radio show Tuesday, saying Customs officials didn't believe him when he said he got the pills at the Clinton Library and he was told they were blue M&Ms. He later added, chuckling: "I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."

He also said today he's "trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on'' his plane. Former Senator Dole was a pitchman for the erectile dysfunction drug after losing a presidential bid. And Limbaugh says he's worried about "the next election" -- and not what Viagra might bring.

Before his own problems became public, Limbaugh had decried drug use and abuse and mocked President Clinton for saying he had not inhaled when he tried marijuana. He often made the case that drug crimes deserve punishment.

"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Limbaugh said on his short-lived television show on Oct. 5, 1995.

[truthBtold2all]

It's obvious that the guy is still abusing drugs. Why wasn't he put in jail the first time?

[Kieren1]

This guy is the most prodigious hypocrite on the planet ...

[Kieren1]

This guy is the most prodigious hypocrite on the planet ...

[dontseenothing]

Thank you CBS I have a marvelous reason to remove you from my cable lineup. Dredging old stories to embarrass individuals is low class and demand and apology.

[back2thetruth]

Seems very, very suspicious that CBS would run a three year old story right now. And why arrest someone for viagra? The story and the timing seems politically motivated to embarrass the right.

I'm sure Rush paid for his own viagra and didn't expect the government to pick up the tab. Ms. Fluke should do the same with her birth control pills.

[realist2010]

Haha! Rush pays for all of his illegal drugs just like Whitney Houston did!

[nastybeth]

rush is most likely a child molester thats what most people think of that fat rotten sick pig now thats back to the truth you sorry lipdick lover

[sandydb]

GROSS!!!!!!

[vannuys]

The hypocrisy is hilarious.

[DonJogh]

I'm no Limbaugh fan but I do find it wrong that this is posted as if it were breaking news.

[nastybeth]

Limbaugh deserves what ever he gets

[csparish1956]

Hey, does this make Rush a ****? I want to see films of him having sex! Why not? What goes around comes around. Seriously, how can anyone believe the sincerity of this pathological liar?

[Focusedcritic]

Election year? Rush thought they said "erection" year, what with his drug related hearing loss and all.