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Internet Pharmacy Owners Sentenced to Five Years in Prison and Ordered to Pay Over $11 Million for Illegal Internet Sales of 10 Million Hydrocodone Pills
Both Defendants Ordered to Forfeit their Homes, a Business Property, Seven Cars and 33 Bank Accounts

JAN 12 -- Baltimore, Maryland – Chief U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg issued an order today following hearings on December 2 and 12, 2008, sentencing both Steven Abiodun Sodipo, age 51, of Forest Hill, Maryland and Callixtus Onigbo Nwaehiri, age 49, of Jarrettsville, Maryland to five years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for illegally selling 9,936,075 pills or dosage units of hydrocodone over the Internet, conspiracy to launder money, engaging in monetary transactions using the proceeds of the illegal drug sales and filing false tax returns, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Sodipo and Nwaehiri were pharmacists and owners of NewCare Pharmacy located at 3423-25 Sinclair Lane, in Baltimore City, Maryland. >> Full Story

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