KCTV5 News captured undercover video of a drug deal taking place at a Hispanic-owned boot shop in Kansas City, Kan.

But the station's undercover producer didn't buy heroin, cocaine or marijuana; she bought an antibiotic for $1.75 a pill, without a prescription.

She bought Pentrexyl and another drug called Flanax, drugs many Kansas Citians probably haven't heard of because they're made in Mexico, and according to their manufacturers, they're not meant to be sold in the United States.

KCTV5 showed the drugs the undercover producer bought to a local pharmacist, Glenn Harte.

"This would be Neproxen Sodium, Anaprox DS in the U.S.," Harte said.

About the other drug, he said, "If it is what it says it is, it's ampicillin 500 mg, which is a prescription antibiotic."

Asked if they should be sold over the counter, Glenn said, "No, they should not be. Definitely not."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the drugs were illegal and shouldn't be sold in the United States at all.

In 2006, Samuel Morones Perales, the owner of Latino grocery stores in Kansas and Missouri pleaded guilty to receiving drugs that were misbranded -- they were labeled in Spanish -- and for selling prescription drugs without a license.

He was deported.

Debra Billingsley, the executive director of the Kansas State Board of Pharmacy, said she thought the issue was "very serious."

The pharmacy board is responsible for overseeing and regulating pharmacies and pharmacists in the state of Kansas.

"There's a lot of things that could happen, that could go wrong, if the patient is given the wrong drug, and it's just, I think it's too risky," Billingsley said.

KCTV5's undercover producer never told the shopkeepers she bought the medicine from what illness she needed to treat, but one of them told her, "With one of each, you're not going to get better at all. You're going to need at least 10, or five of each one."

One of the shopkeepers recommended both the Flanax and the Pentrexyl, but the local pharmacist said the drugs were not interchangeable.

"You have an antibiotic for an infection and an anti-inflammatory for an arthritic condition or muscle injury," Glenn said.

About the dosages, one of the shopkeepers told KCTV5's undercover producer to take one every six hours, but less than a minute later, he doubled the dose, telling her to take two every six hours.

After the undercover purchase, KCTV5 went back to the shop.

At Tarahumara Boots, the owner and his wife denied selling KCTV5's undercover producer any medications at all.

The clerk said he didn't remember selling it and that he couldn't explain how the undercover producer bought it at the store.

When asked if he understood that it was dangerous, he said, "Yeah."

At another store in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, El Paisano, the woman behind the counter admitted selling KCTV5 News the meds but tried to explain why.

"Yeah, they told me it was illegal. But sometimes like me we don't have money so we get something like this," the woman said.

She said she only sold the medicine to people who couldn't afford to go to a doctor and get a prescription and that she was trying to help people out.

That help, according to the local pharmacist, may not be worth the risk.

Glenn said, "The money you may save on the doctor's office visit you may save, but you may put yourself at more risk and harm, even death because you don't know what you're getting."