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 . Arrested as `` recruiters '' in the alleged OxyContin scam , are , clockwise : Janice Currington ; Dwonvalyn Johnson ; Barbara Miller Benaby ; Guyton Wynell ; Marcella Pierce ; and Wanda McNeal . 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 . Authorities estimate 130 medically unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin -- more than 12,000 tablets -- were presented to pharmacies . The drugs have an estimated street value of $ 400,000 , prosecutors said . OxyContin is a popular painkiller , delivering an instant `` high '' when it is crushed or dissolved and ingested . The scam began in January 2003 , when six `` recruiters '' enlisted a group of people , most of them employees of local government , to participate in the ring , according to prosecutors . Those employees provided their health insurance identification information , and with that information they obtained unnecessary prescriptions for OxyContin from another codefendant , who was a physician , authorities said . The defendants filled those prescriptions at pharmacies and sold the pills for cash to another codefendant , authorities said . In addition , prosecutors said , the defendants submitted claims to their insurance companies for reimbursement for the OxyContin prescriptions . `` There can never be an excuse for helping put dangerous drugs onto our streets , '' said Katherine Fernandez Rundle , Miami-Dade state attorney . `` When public employees are a part of the problem and when public medical benefits are used to make the scheme work , these are shameful events . They are also crimes . '' 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 .
Total of 62 arrested , including police officer , felony court clerk , corrections officers . Officials : Recruiters enlisted mostly Miami-Dade government workers in drug ring . Score: 6 More than 12,000 tablets were obtained , with a street value of $ 400,000 .