A Jacksonville pharmacist and a former pharmacy owner were sentenced after they both pleaded guilty to charges related to a federal pill mill investigation, prosecutors say.
Gilbert Weise Jr., 58, of Fleming Island, was sentenced to 46 months in prison, fined $5,000 and ordered to serve three years of supervised release after the completion of his prison term, federal prosecutors said. Heto a charge of conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and not in the usual course of professional practice, according to prosecutors.
According to a 13-page federal indictment, before Coastline Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in St. Marys shut its door, it held itself as a legitimate medical clinic, but it was really a pill mill that routinely dispensed addictive pain medication for illegitimate purposes. Investigators also said Coastline tried to stay under the radar by not accepting payments from insurance companies and required patients to get MRI reports and a prescription profile from a pharmacy to appear legitimate. Coastline’s physician and owner was indicted but was later found unfit to stand trial.
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