Tag: FDA
Brandon Piper, Drug Trafficking, Michigan 2026
⏱ 2 min read Brandon Piper, a 35-year-old from Gobles, Michigan, was sentenced to 21 months in prison for his role in a scheme to import and sell unapproved, misbranded prescription drugs from China. The drugs, including peptides like semaglutide and tirzepatide, were sold to customers in the US through a Canadian website and later…
Matthew Ryan Elkins, Narcotics Tampering, Kentucky 2024
⏱ 2 min read A Crestwood nurse anesthetist, Matthew Ryan Elkins, 41, was sentenced to 6 years and 5 months in federal prison for narcotics-related offenses. The crimes occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, where Elkins worked at a pain treatment center, and were committed over a period of at least three months. Elkins was caught by…
David Ralph Webber, Misbranded Drug Introduction, Nevada 2026
⏱ 2 min read David Ralph Webber, a Henderson, Nevada man, pleaded guilty to smuggling misbranded erectile dysfunction drugs from India into the United States. Webber, who owned and operated Passion Plus Enterprises Inc. and Whole Science Health, imported hundreds of thousands of prescription drug capsules and tablets containing sildenafil and tadalafil, the active ingredients…
Scott Robinson, Drug Adulteration, Florida 2022
⏱ 2 min read Scott Robinson, a 51-year-old from Pace, Florida, has been sentenced to 20 months in federal prison for selling adulterated animal drugs online. From 2022 to 2025, Robinson advertised and sold the animal drug toltrazuril to customers across the United States via his website, despite knowing it was deemed an adulterated new…
Jia Bei Zhu, COVID Test Fraud, California 2026
⏱ 2 min read A California biolab operator, Jia Bei Zhu, 64, has been found guilty of selling over a million fake COVID tests for nearly $4 million to customers across the US. The scheme, which involved Zhu’s company Universal Meditech Inc. (UMI), was uncovered in Fresno, California, where Zhu lied to the FDA about…
Michael Shawn Boaz, Health Care Fraud, Kentucky 2022
⏱ 2 min read A pharmacist in Western Kentucky made a killing off his customers – not from saving lives, but from overcharging them for vitamins and prescriptions. Michael Shawn Boaz, 47, of Clinton, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a $2 million health care fraud scheme that spanned four…
Michelle Kollmar, Prescription Forgery, Virginia 2023
⏱ 2 min read A Chesapeake nurse, Michelle Kollmar, 56, got caught stealing painkillers from patients suffering from cancer and sickle-cell anemia at a healthcare facility in Virginia. Between January 2023 and March 2024, Kollmar used patients’ personal info to access automated prescription machines and divert vials of hydromorphone. She’d replace the vials with syringes,…
Rebecca Fadanelli, Counterfeit Botox Distribution, Massachusetts 2021
⏱ 2 min read A Stoughton, Mass., woman injected hundreds of clients with fake Botox and dermal fillers, raking in over $1 million in the process. Rebecca Fadanelli, 40, the owner of Skin Beaute Med Spa with locations in Randolph and South Easton, Mass., imported counterfeit Botox, Sculptra and Juvéderm from China and Brazil and…
Shelbi Wolken, Administered Fentanyl, Colorado 2023
A Denver hospital case manager systematically swapped opioid painkillers for over-the-counter allergy medication, leaving 127 patients vulnerable and in needless suffering. Shelbi Wolken, 35, confessed in federal court to a brazen scheme that stretched for seven months, exploiting a position of trust to fuel a personal addiction. The fallout could have been deadly, and the…
David Webber, Fake Viagra and Cialis Trafficking, Nevada 2018
⏱ 3 min read David Webber, 50, of Henderson, Nevada, built a nearly $2 million empire slinging fake Viagra and Cialis, according to a federal indictment unsealed today. For at least five years, since 2018, Webber allegedly imported hundreds of thousands of illicit erectile dysfunction pills from unregistered factories in India, then pushed them onto…
