Feds: Physician Assistant Flooded Long Island Streets With Oxycodone
The pills were distributed to known drug dealers, who gave the physician assistant a kickback from sales on the street, authorities say.
A physical assistant from Riverhead is accused of illegally distributing tens of thousands oxycodone pills in exchange for a kickback from drug dealers when the highly addictive painkillers were sold on the street, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Michael Troyan, 37, was arrested Wednesday morning at East End Urgent and Primary Care located at 1228 E. Main Street in Riverhead, according to a news release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Troyan is charged with with conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. According to prosecutors, between November 2011 and October 2015, Troyan, who had the authority to prescribe controlled substances, issued prescriptions for thousands (Newsday reported the figure as 60,000) of oxycodone pills to co-conspirators for the purpose of illegally re-selling the pills for cash.
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