Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations PITTSBURGH – Three residents and a company of Canada have been charged by Information in Pittsburgh with conspiring to distribute wholesale quantities of misbranded prescription drugs made for the foreign market and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Soo C….
February 15, 2017: Hampton-Based Spice Dealer Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Jayson Mickle, 31, of Hampton, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances and controlled substance analogues. Mickle pleaded guilty on June 27, 2016. According to court documents, from 2008 to 2014, Mickle sold…
March 22, 2017: Owner of New England Compounding Center Convicted of Racketeering Leading to Nationwide Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Outbreak was the largest public health crisis ever caused by a pharmaceutical product BOSTON – Barry Cadden, the owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC), was convicted today by a federal jury of racketeering and mail fraud…
March 22, 2017: Diamond Bar Man Pleads Guilty to Smuggling ED Drugs that Were Sold as ‘Herbal Enhancement’ Products without Prescriptions
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations LOS ANGELES – A Diamond Bar man who illegally imported the active ingredients used in erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra and Cialis and repackaged the drugs for sale as herbal sexual enhancement products pleaded guilty today to federal charges. …
March 14, 2017: Woman Admits to Causing the Death of Another Person by Injecting Her with Liquid Silicone
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations ATLANTA – Deanna Roberts has pleaded guilty to four felony counts of possessing, transporting, and ultimately illegally injecting persons with liquid silicone and four felony counts of introducing into interstate commerce liquid silicone, which was an adulterated device. One…
March 13, 2017: Vice-President of SK Labs Found Guilty of Conspiracy, Mail Fraud Charges
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Sitesh Bansi Patel Found Guilty Following Five-Day Jury Trial Abingdon, VIRGINIA – An Irvine, California, man was found guilty Friday afternoon following a five-day jury trial on conspiracy and mail fraud charges in relation to his role in…
January 11, 2017: Worcester Nurse Pleads Guilty to Drug Tampering
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations BOSTON – A Worcester nurse pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with stealing painkillers from the nursing home where she worked and attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the medication with saline. Lea Roberge, 32, pleaded guilty to…
January 12, 2017: Baxter Healthcare Corporation to Pay More than $18 Million to Resolve Criminal and Civil Liability Relating to Sterile Products
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations Company Failed to Follow Good Manufacturing Practices in North Carolina Facility Healthcare company Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Baxter) has agreed to pay $18.158 million to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from Baxter’s failure to follow current Good Manufacturing…
January 13, 2017: Paramedic Pleads Guilty to Tampering with Drugs
TULSA, Okla.— Sara Nicole Hogsett, 26, plead guilty to Tampering with Consumer Products, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Court Judge James H. Payne will sentence Hogsett on April 26, 2017. From April 2016 to May 2016, Hogsett, a paramedic, took pain medication:…
January 13, 2017: Two Louisiana Men Sentenced for Roles in On-line Pharmacy Scheme
Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations PITTSBURGH – Two Louisiana residents have been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation, a forfeiture of $433,833.00 and $2,000 fine on their convictions of fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, Acting United States…