Floyd County Man Sentenced in Large Prescription Drug Ring
| U.S. Attorney’s Office August 07, 2009 |
LONDON, KY—The United States Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and Kentucky State Police jointly announced today that a Floyd County man was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for his role in a large prescription ring that involved the distribution of more than 200,000 pills in a two-year period.
United States District Court Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove sentenced 47-year-old Timothy Wayne Hall for engaging in a criminal enterprise. Hall is one of 22 individuals that has pleaded guilty to a role in the conspiracy.
Hall admitted that starting in 2001 and continuing to 2007, he organized, led and directed at least five people to obtain methadone pills from a doctor’s office in Pennsylvania and oxycodone pills from drug dealers in Michigan to be brought back to Floyd County for distribution around Eastern Kentucky. Hall also acknowledged that he and others distributed more than 50,000 methadone and 150,000 oxycodone tablets during a two-year time frame.
The defendants used the proceeds from the local drug distributions to pay for the doctor visits and the prescriptions. The doctor(s) and on occasion an office worker wrote out the methadone prescriptions for Hall’s co-conspirators.
Hall pleaded guilty in April of this year. Under federal law, Hall must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence, and, upon release, will be under the supervision of the United States Probation Office for five years. Hall was required to forfeit approximately $30,000.00 and several parcels of land.
James A. Zerhusen, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Timothy D. Cox, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert L. Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Rodney Brewer, Commissioner, Kentucky State Police, jointly made the announcement today after the sentencing.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI, DEA, and KSP. The United States was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Roger W. West.