Pharmacist Convicted in Dealing Drugs

Photos.com. ModelFormer City Pharmacist Convicted of Illegal Drug Dealing

PHILADELPHIA—Lawrence Young, 68, a former licensed Philadelphia pharmacy owner from Cherry Hill, NJ, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and distribution of controlled substances, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy. Evidence presented at trial showed that between 2001 and October 2006, Young operated the pharmacy, at 1306 South Street, as a haven for drug dealers and drug addicts who went there to fill sham medical prescriptions for frequently abused prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as Percocet, Lorcet, and Xanax, and the frequently abused syrups Tussionex and Phenergan with Codeine. The drug dealers and drug addicts fraudulently obtained the sham prescriptions in their own names and in the names of others from corrupt doctors, such as Joseph L. Borkson, who issued the invalid prescriptions. Young filled the prescriptions knowing they were shams. Borkson pleaded guilty and was sentenced in September to 60 months in prison.