A Lumberton man has been sentenced to 132 months imprisonment for his role in a large-scale prescription drug distribution ring in Robeson County, North Carolina.
According to the investigation, Anthony Andrews, 51, of Lumberton, conspired with Dr. Donovan Dixon to distribute Endocet, Methadone, Oxycodone, Oxycontin, and Oxymorphone in the area from June 2012 until April 2015.
Andrews would provide Dixon with names of individuals, and Dixon would then write prescriptions for those individuals in exchange for cash. Andrews would then sell those prescription drugs on the streets of Robeson County.
On March 15, 2016, Andrews was named in an Indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute the aforementioned prescription drugs.
On October 11, 2016, Andrews pled guilty to the charges.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Tactical Diversion Squad, with assistance from the State Bureau of Investigation, Diversion and Environmental Crime Unit, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, and the Fayetteville Police Department.
For information concerning the court’s sentence of Dr. Dixon, please click on this link https://go.usa.gov/xPG7Z.
The sentence of 132 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release, was handed down by United States District Judge James C. Dever III.
Key Facts
- State: North Carolina
- Category: Drug Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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