An Arizona pharmacist will go to prison after filling fake prescriptions for opioid drugs that ended up in the hands of street-level drug dealers.
The Nov. 28 sentencing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona follows the conviction of pharmacist Vilawoe Aku Boadu on drug and money laundering charges. Boadu’s 10-year prison sentence is part of a larger case in which at least four people were sent to prison and law enforcement seized dozens of guns, several bank accounts, and a Mercedes-Benz.
Boadu owned two pharmacies in Arizona that processed fake prescriptions from 2014 to 2017, the ...
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