Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina said in a news release. “Opioid addiction and abuse have devastated communities across our nation, and eastern North Carolina is no exception,” Robert J. Drug Enforcement Administration for three years.īoth Waggett and King are also permanently barred from serving as a manager, owner, operator or pharmacist-in-charge of any enterprise that administers, dispenses or distributes controlled substances, including a pharmacy, officials said.Ī review of the government’s consent judgment indicated that the $1 million-plus payback by Waggett and King is considered to be a debt owed the government and not mandatory restitution to aid any victimized individuals, some of whom died from overdoses after having prescriptions filled at Seashore, prosecutors allege. King is prohibited from dispensing Schedule II controlled substances, including most opioids, for 180 days and will then be subject to monitoring by the U.S. Under the consent agreement, Waggett, who was owner and president as well as a pharmacist, is permanently prohibited from dispensing opioids or other controlled substances. Seashore Discount Drugs, 2059 Carolina Beach Road, is now under new management and remains open. King II agreed to resolve charges filed by the government that accused the pair of ignoring multiple “red flags” and failing to ensure the legitimacy of prescriptions brought to the pharmacy before filling them. Waggett and former pharmacist-in-charge Billy W. While not admitting the allegations, former Seashore Drugs Inc.
have agreed to $1.05 million in civil penalties as part of a consent agreement with the government stemming from practices that prosecutors allege helped turn the local pharmacy into a magnet for drug abusers.
Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced Thursday that the former owner and pharmacist-in-charge of Seashore Drugs Inc.
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