Picture Credit: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (CW44 Information At 10)– Narcotics Detectives arrested a health care provider in Clearwater for fraudulent prescriptions being written and bought.
Based on detectives, on Could 11, detectives acquired details about 62-year-old Dr. Neelam Uppal as a possible supply of writing the illegitimate prescriptions, particularly for Promethazine Codeine Syrup and Oxycodone. Detectives discovered since January of 2022, Uppal bought over 5 hundred and fifty (550) Promethazine Codeine Syrup prescriptions and a whole bunch of Oxycodone prescriptions. Detectives say Dr. Uppal has been preying on drug addicts for a number of years.
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All through the course of the investigation, Uppal prescribed each Promethazine Codeine Syrup and Oxycodone to undercover detectives with out ever seeing, analyzing or chatting with them. Detectives acquired the prescriptions after paying $650.00 money for every Promethazine Codeine Syrup prescription and $450.00 money for every Oxycodone prescription.
Uppal is listed as an Infectious Illness Physician and detectives say The Florida Division of Well being exhibits Uppal to be on probationary standing.
On July 26, 2022, detectives served a search warrant at Uppal’s residence and enterprise. Uppal primarily performed enterprise from her residence. Whereas detectives have been at Uppal’s residence two people arrived to acquire extra fraudulent prescriptions.
Detectives situated the next gadgets within the search:
- A number of prescription pads
- Minimal affected person information and paperwork
- A number of handwritten ledgers
- A number of prescriptions stuffed out with quite a lot of sufferers’ names
- $1,906,483.00 in US Foreign money
- Gold bars and jewellery valued at roughly $175,000
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Uppal was charged with three counts of Trafficking in Codeine and three counts of Trafficking in Oxycodone. She was taken into custody and transported to the Pinellas County Jail.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was additionally current and served Uppal with a civil injunction to revoke her skill to additional prescribe remedy.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace Narcotics Division will proceed to pursue docs who’re preying on addicts and contribute to physician purchasing.
The investigation continues.
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