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Nurse Sentenced to Federal Prison for Illegal Prescription Scheme

February 02, 2024
TAMPA , F la. – U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced Debora Ryder (56, New Port Richey) to three years in federal prison for drug conspiracy . Ryder entered a guilty plea on September 19, 2023. She has also agreed to forfeit her nursing licenses. According to court...
February 02, 2024
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Jury Convicts Pain Clinic Doctor of Unlawful Drug Distribution, Money Laundering, and Filing a False Tax Return

June 23, 2023
TAMPA , F la. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced that a federal jury found Dr. Qing McGaha guilty of 14 counts of unlawful drug distribution, four (4) counts of money laundering, and one (1) count of filing a false tax return. McGaha faces a maximum penalty of...
June 23, 2023
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Defendants Convicted and Sentenced in Long-Term Methamphetamine and Oxycodone Drug Trafficking Investigation in Bay County

March 10, 2023
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A federal judge sentenced the seventh defendant in a large-scale methamphetamine and oxycodone trafficking organization operating primarily in Bay County. The convictions and sentences were announced by Jason R. Coody United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. “Our local, state, and federal law enforcement partners...
March 10, 2023
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Pain Clinic Doctor and Staff Member Charged with Unlawful Distribution of Opioids

January 06, 2022
TAMPA, Fla. – United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced the return of an indictment charging Dr. Qing McGaha (55, Tampa) with conspiracy to commit unlawful distribution of controlled substances and unlawful distribution of controlled substances for no legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice, as...
January 06, 2022
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Naples Doctor Who Operated a Pill Mill Sentenced to Three Years in Federal Prison

December 06, 2021
FORT MYERS, Fla. – U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Gerald Michael Abraham, 76, of Naples, Florida. to three years in federal prison for dispensing controlled substances (oxycodone and amphetamine) for no legitimate medical purpose. The court also ordered Abraham to forfeit the following items to the United...
December 06, 2021
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Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Unlawfully Distributing Opioids at His Pain Management Clinic

November 10, 2021
MIAMI – A Florida man pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawfully distributing opioids at his pain management clinic in Miami, Florida. According to court documents, Habib Geagea Palacios, 40, of Miami, owned a cash-only pain management clinic in Miami, Florida named General Care Center, Inc. At General Care Center, Palacios paid...
November 10, 2021
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Former Jacksonville healthcare worker sentenced to five years in federal prison for opioid distribution conspiracy

June 23, 2020
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Rhiannon Rader (34, St. Marys, Georgia) was sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, hydrocodone, and alprazolam (Xanax). Rader had pleaded guilty on October 29, 2019. According to court documents, as an employee of a Jacksonville Beach physician’s office, Rader had access...
June 23, 2020
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Local pharmacist pleads guilty to unlawful distribution of oxycodone

April 27, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. - Hong Truong (54, Dunedin) has pleaded guilty to the unlawful distribution of oxycodone outside the scope of professional practice. Truong faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. She has agreed to a money judgment in the amount of $766,819 to the United States, representing...
April 27, 2020
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Pain clinic owner pleads guilty to tax evasion and money laundering

February 04, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. - Tom Wynne pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit tax evasion, one count of tax evasion, and seven counts of money laundering. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for each of the tax-related counts and up to 10 years in...
February 04, 2020
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South Florida doctor sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone

December 17, 2019
MIAMI - Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to eight years in prison, after previously pleading guilty to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone. According to the court record, including the agreed upon factual proffers in support of the defendants’ guilty pleas, from November...
December 17, 2019
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