BUFFALO,
N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that
Rodney Courton, 48, and John Davis, 44, both of
Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances through
fraud, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a
maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Assistant
U.S. Attorney Michael J. Adler, who is handling the case, stated that
between December 2013 and April 2015, co-defendant
Brandon Coburn, a licensed nurse practitioner who is legally authorized
to prescribe controlled substances, provided fraudulent fentanyl,
oxycodone, oxymorphone, and amphetamine prescriptions to Courton, Davis,
and eight other co-defendants. Those prescriptions,
however, were not used for a legitimate medical purposes and instead
were filled by the defendants and others and sold on the street in the
Buffalo area. Courton and Davis filled a total of 34 of the fraudulent
prescriptions.
To date, four defendants charged in this investigation have been convicted. The fact that a defendant has been charged with a
crime is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
Today’s pleas are the result of an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, under the direction of James J. Hunt,
Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Field Division.
Courton is scheduled to be sentenced on May 17, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. Davis is scheduled to be sentenced on May 18, 2017 at 12:30
p.m., both before Judge Arcara.
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