Elderly doctor and pharmacist illegally dealt more than 1.6 million pain pills [View all]
HOUSTON -- Federal authorities contend that a Houston doctor and pharmacist, both men in their seventies, used bogus prescriptions to peddle about 1.6 million pain pills during a three-year period.
Dr. Richard Arthur Evans, 70, and David D. Devido are charged in a 24-count indictment that was unsealed Monday in federal court as the men made initial appearances.
Among their alleged crimes are conspiring to distribute controlled substances, mail fraud, health-care fraud and money laundering as they dealt highly addictive pills that are sought by drug addicts and dealers. There was no immediate listing of the men’s lawyer’s names.
Evans wrote prescriptions and Devido actually dispensed the drugs, according to the indictment, which describes an operation in which the patients and their health-care professionals were in on the scam.
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