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Posted on Saturday, 16th May 2009 by dcooley

Kansas pharmacist, Rick Kloxin, pled no contest to 14 misdemeanor counts in the Hogan’s Pharmacy internet pharmacy case.  Kloxin was the lead pharmacist at Hogan’s Pharmacy and plans to cooperate in the prosecution of Jolane and Mark Poindexter, the owners of Hogan’s.  In March, Kloxin lost his license and was fined $62,000.  A discussion of the [...]

Tags: Administrative Hearing, Hogan's Pharmacy, Internet Pharmacy Law, Kansas, Pharmacies, Plea, Ryan Haight Act, State Law
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Posted on Sunday, 10th May 2009 by dcooley

Many federal circuits permit a good faith jury instruction in cases in which doctors are prosecuted under the Controlled Substances Act.  Internet pharmacy law cases involving doctors are no different.  Below is an illustrative case:
U.S. v. Hurwitz, 459 F.3d 463 (2006):  The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Dr. William E. Hurtwitz’s conviction due to the [...]

Tags: Controlled Substances, Criminal Appeals, Criminal Defense, Doctors, Internet Pharmacy Law, jury instructions, Pharmacies, Ryan Haight Act, Website Owners
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Posted on Tuesday, 24th March 2009 by dcooley

After an administrative hearing last December, an administrative judge revoked the licenses of Hogan’s Pharmacy owners, Mark and Jolane Poindexter, and pharmacist Rick Kloxin for their involvement with an internet pharmacy.  According to the Hutchinson News:
The judge determined that [they] . . . essentially were running two different businesses out of Hogan’s Pharmacy in Lyons. The “front” [...]

Tags: Administrative Hearing, Hogan's Pharmacy, Pharmacies, Ryan Haight Act, State Law
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Posted on Monday, 2nd February 2009 by dcooley

Internet pharmacy owners Steven Abiodun Sodipo and Onigbo Nwaehiri were both sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Maryland District Court Judge earlier last month for their role in selling 9,936,075 hydrocodone (Vicodin) prescription pills online.  Both were pharmacists and owners of NewCare Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland.  Additionally, both were ordered to pay $11,870,119.39.  To satisfy [...]

Tags: Controlled Substances, Internet Pharmacy Law, Pharmacies, Sentence, Trial
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Posted on Saturday, 31st January 2009 by dcooley

Ohio pharmacist Gary A. Evankovich was indicted for his alleged involvement with an internet pharmacy by a Mahoning County grand jury on 24 counts of “reckless retail sale of drug[s].”  The drug sales allegedly originated from the internet, and the prescriptions were signed by a New York doctor.  Prosecuting Attorney Robert Bush stated that Evankovich “illegally filled prescriptions [...]

Tags: Indictment, Internet Pharmacy Law, Ohio, Pharmacies, State Law
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Posted on Friday, 30th January 2009 by dcooley

A federal district court unsealed a 198 count indictment of several individuals associated with an Alabama compounding pharmacy (Applied Pharmacy Services, Inc.) and extensive steroid distribution network alleged to have dispensed anabolic steroids between 2003-2006 “outside the usual course of professional practice.”  Those indicted include A. Samuel Kelley II, Jason R. Kelley, Jodi C. Silvio, J. [...]

Tags: Applied Pharmacy, Doctors, Indictment, Internet Pharmacy Law, Pharmacies, Steroids
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