DEA Archived Press Releases

Press Releases before January 20, 2025
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Lasalle County Doctor Sentenced for Dispensing Prescription Drugs to Addicts for Sex

CHICAGO - A LaSalle County physician was sentenced today to 12 years in federal prison for illegally dispensing prescription medications, including opioids, in exchange for cash or sex. Constantino Perales, M.D., illegally prescribed oxycodone and Xanax to a patient, Andrew Strandell, knowing that Strandell would sell the pills on the...
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Upper East Side doctor convicted in Brooklyn Federal Court of causing overdose death of a patient

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A federal jury in Brooklyn today, following two weeks of trial, convicted Dr. Martin Tesher of 10 counts of unlawful distribution of oxycodone without legitimate medical purpose to five patients, one of whom died as a result two days after his last visit with the defendant. When...