MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday.
Sixty-two people were arrested in total and all face charges including racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering and grand theft, according to the Miami-Dade state attorney's office.
Among those arrested, according to authorities, were:
• 17 Miami-Dade County Public Schools bus drivers• 10 Miami-Dade County Public Schools bus attendants
• Six city of Miami Department of Solid Waste employees
• Five Miami-Dade County Public Schools security officers
• Three Miami-Dade County Public Schools custodians
• Two Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation corrections officers
• Two Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher assistants
• Two Miami-Dade County Transit bus drivers
• One city of Hialeah police officer
• One city of Miami crane operator
• One Miami-Dade County Circuit Court felony clerk
• One Helen B. Bentley Family Health Center driver
• One Miami-Dade County Human Services data entry specialist
• One Miami-Dade County Human Services employee (other)
• One Miami-Dade County General Services Administration employee
• One Department of Children and Families employee
• One former employee of Family Christian Services
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