Pittsburgh Woman Sentenced to Probation for Conspiring to Obtain, Distribute Prescription Drugs

United States Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan announced today, November 16, 2009, that Lindsey Nicole Coccoli, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh to 24 months of probation on her conviction of violating the federal drug laws.

United States District Judge Terrence F. McVerry imposed the sentence on Coccoli, age 27.

According to information presented to the court by Assistant United States Attorney Craig W. Haller, from in or around June 2007, and continuing until in or around August 2008, in the Western District of Pennsylvania and elsewhere, Coccoli conspired with others to acquire and obtain possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge, including through the creation and use of fictitious and forged prescriptions, and did conspire to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of Oxycontin, a Schedule II controlled substance, a quantity of Percocet, a Schedule II controlled substance, a quantity of Vicodin, a Schedule III controlled substance, and a quantity of Xanax a Schedule IV controlled substance.

Ms. Buchanan commended The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Lindsey Nicole Coccoli. Other agencies participating in the investigation include the Pennsylvania State Police, the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office - Violent Crimes/Firearms Task Force, the Allegheny County Sheriff's Department, the Allegheny County Police Department, the Allegheny County Adult Probation, the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation, the United States Marshals Service, the West Mifflin Police Department, the Coraopolis Police Department, the Jefferson Hills Police Department, the Mount Lebanon Police Department, and the Pennsylvania State Parole.