Man Gets 7-Year Sentence For Distributing Painkillers
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man was sentenced to seven years in prison for distributing thousands of oxycodone pills he obtained by using false prescriptions he got from a doctor.
State authorities say 44-year-old Marlboro resident David Roth provided the doctor with the names and birth dates of people he had recruited. The doctor then wrote them prescriptions, even though he never met, examined or treated them.
Once Roth had a prescription, authorities say he went to a pharmacy with the person named in the prescription to fill it.
Roth paid the doctor for writing the prescriptions and also paid the individuals he recruited as purported patients, either in cash, prescription narcotics, or both.
Roth would then illegally distribute the pills, typically selling each 30 milligram oxycodone tablet for $20 or $30.
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