The thieves apparently scaled the brick exterior of the warehouse during a blustery rainstorm, cut a hole in the roof, and rappelled inside. After disabling the alarms, the thieves spent at least an hour loading pallets of drugs into a vehicle at the loading dock.
Edward Sagebiel, a spokesman for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, put the wholesale value of the drugs at $75 million and said they included the antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta and the anti-psychotic Zyprexa. No narcotics or other painkillers were in the warehouse, he said.
