Tampa Bay Criminal Defense Lawyer - Pill mill ruling...

By Nicholas Dorsten, Esq.

Another story about "pill mills", this one having to do with a Judge's ruling. You may remember these defendant's from a previous blog post...

TAMPA —A Tampa judge will now rule on whether to dismiss a case against the owners and doctor at a pain clinic that prosecutors describe as a pill mill, one where prescription drugs like oxycodone get illegally prescribed...

The Judge would not say when she expects to rule on the defendants' motion to dismiss the charges.

The defendants include the 1st Medical Group clinic's married co-owners and its doctor. All three face 82 counts including drug trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy. An office manager and former employee face a less number of charges.

The defendants were also arraigned,each one pleading innocent.

Police accuse the now-closed clinic on Dale Mabry Highway of prescribing more than 2.4 million addictive pain pills in seven months. Attorneys for the defendants say the state has failed to say how the clinic's business was criminal given the doctor is properly licensed.

Have you been arrested on prescription pill or trafficking in oxycodone charges? Then the Pinellas, Florida based Blake & Dorsten, P.A. Pinellas criminal defense lawyers are at your service.

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