Pharmacist, 73, Providence man, 81, face drug charges

PROVIDENCE -- Two elderly men, including an owner of Prime Drug, were charged in federal court today with multiple counts alleging that they illegally distributed pain killers and expensive HIV drugs from the pharmacy on Cranston Street in the city’s West End. Carmine DeTomasis, 73, a licensed pharmacist and co-owner of the pharmacy at 613 Cranston St., and Louis Romanelli, 81, of Victoria Street, in Providence, were each charged with distribution of controlled substances, conspiracy to distri