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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"A San Fernando Valley pharmacist who used forged prescriptions to illegally sell narcotics, including opioids, to phony \u201cpatients\u201d has been sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi sentenced to Gevork Danielian, 41, of Granada Hills, on Monday.\u00a0 The judge also ordered him to pay a $100,000 fine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danielian pleaded guilty in November 2022 to one count of conspiracy to distributed controlled substances.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From December 2014 to July 2020, Danielian owned and operated the Winnetka-based A&G Vitalife Inc., which did business as A&G Care Pharmacy, where he worked as the pharmacist-in-charge. <\/span><\/p>\n

From April 2018 to December 2018, Danielian conspired with others to unlawfully sell narcotics, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, methamphetamine salts, and alprazolam, an anxiety medication sold under the brand name Xanax.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"A co-conspirator would obtain blank prescription papers, Danielian would then provide \u2013 usually by text message \u2013 the names and dates of birth of individuals to be falsely identified as patients, which the co-conspirator would then use to fill in the falsified prescriptions. <\/span><\/p>\n

The co-conspirator would bring the falsified prescriptions to Danielian, bearing the forged signatures of real physicians. <\/span><\/p>\n

Danielian would \u201cfill\u201d the prescriptions in exchange for money despite knowing the narcotics were not going to be used for a legitimate medical purpose, but rather were going to be illicitly sold by his co-conspirator.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danielian filled prescriptions for hundreds of pills of opioids and other narcotics during the conspiracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\" For example, on October 29, 2018, Danielian filled prescriptions for approximately 120 pills of 30-milligram strength oxycodone each for two fictitious patients, using a forged prescription falsely purporting to have been written by a physician.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In November 2020, the California State Board of Pharmacy placed Danielian on probation for four years. <\/span><\/p>\n

It discontinued his business after he was accused of poor record-keeping and dispensing fraudulent prescriptions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cPharmacists, by training and education, should be gatekeepers to help prevent abuse, addiction, and overdose,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201c[Danielian] flouted this responsibility and instead became an agent of addiction and abuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

DEA investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorney Maria Jhai of the Terrorism and Export Crimes Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

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