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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Holland Doctor gets Year in Prison for Illegally Selling Percocet

A Holland doctor was sentenced to a year and one day in prison after illegally selling the pain killer from his Trenton, N.J. office, according to reports.

A Holland doctor will do time after illegally selling the pain killer Percocet from his Trenton, N.J. office, an NJ.com article reports. Dr. Augustine Lee, 70, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for selling the narcotic from his office on Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton, the article said. According to a federal criminal complaint, Lee was arrested in February 2011 after months of surveillance found that he was giving Percocet prescriptions to walk-in customers for $60.  He allegedly dealt 40,000 tablets of prescription painkillers from the front window at his New Jersey office during 2010, which resulted in an increase of pedestrian traffic to the area, the NJ.com article explained.  Lee admitted to illegally selling …

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