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Former Toledo Physician Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking and Drugging Victims
A former Toledo-area physician has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for sex trafficking and drugging victims. Manish Raj Gupta, 50, of Sylvania, Ohio, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and illegally dispensing a controlled substance.
Gupta was sentenced to 235 months in prison by Judge James G. Carr and ordered to pay a fine of $250,000 and over $57,000 in restitution.
According to court documents, Gupta was a plastic surgeon and business owner of three surgery centers located in the city of Toledo, the city of Oregon, and the Southern Michigan area.
Gupta would often travel to medical conferences in large urban areas, hire escorts in the area, and administer incapacitating drugs to commit sexual acts of violence without consent.
Gupta often recorded these assaults and would ship a bag containing drugs and recording equipment to the hotel where he was staying prior to his travel.
On March 6, 2020, FBI agents executed a federal search warrant at one of Gupta’s plastic surgery centers in Toledo and obtained numerous items, including controlled substances, sedatives, recording equipment, and video recording memory cards.
This case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Toledo Resident Agency. The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Tracey Ballard Tangeman and Carol M. Skutnik.
Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan stated that Gupta meticulously planned his attacks, including which controlled substances to pull from his medical office so that he could incapacitate vulnerable women and record his sexual assaults.
The FBI is pleased with the lengthy sentence given today to Manish Gupta for his heinous criminal behavior, said FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith.
Gupta is currently serving his sentence and will no longer be a threat to women. The FBI encourages anyone that was sexually victimized by Manish Gupta to please contact the FBI at 1-877-FBI-OHIO.
Key Facts
- State: Ohio
- Category: Sex Crimes|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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