A Gray doctor, Thomas Sachy, and three other people now face federal charges for illegal drug prescriptions and money laundering.
On Tuesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided Georgia Pain & Behavior Medicine on Lana Drive.
Federal indictments unsealed Tuesday said Sachy's office illegally handed out drugs like hydrocodone, morphine. methadone, oxycodone and fentanyl.
Sachy allegedly prescribed the drugs without a examinations or a legitimate medical purpose. He also prescribed the drugs in improper dosages and combinations, the indictment says.
The indictment claims that the illegal prescriptions caused death or serious injury for at least one patient.
Also charged are Sachy's office manager, Maureen Sachy; a nurse, Evelyne Ennis; and a medical assistant, Brandy Lynn Hamilton, also known as Brandy Lynn Birchfield.
According to the indictment:
Sachy is charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense control substances; two counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substances, causing death and bodily injury; unlawful distribution of controlled substances; maintaining drug-involved premises; and money-laundering conspiracy.
Maureen Sachy is charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense control substances; maintaining drug-involved premises; and money-laundering conspiracy.
Ennis and Hamilton are charged with conspiracy to distribute and dispense control substances;
The Jones County Sheriff's office says the four were arrested yesterday by DEA agents, and taken to a federal facility.
The DEA referred further questions on the case to Pam Lightsey of the U.S. Attorney's office in Macon. We could not reach her for comment.
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Federal drug-enforcement agents raided a Gray doctor’s office Tuesday.
It happened at Gray Pain & Behavior Management on Lana Drive.
Randy Cockrell of the DEA says it was part of an investigation of the firm’s owner, Dr. Thomas Sachs. He would not comment further and referred questions to DEA spokesman Chuvalo Truesdell in Atlanta.
Cockrell said other law-enforcement agencies were involved but declined to name them.
The business was closed around 6:30 p.m. and agents appeared to be gathering records and other evidence inside. About a dozen unmarked vehicles were parked outside, and several agents were seen loading evidence boxes into vehicles.
We could not reach Truesdell or Jones County Sheriff Butch Reece for comment.