Officials: Chelsea doctor, patients operated drug ring
On Wednesday, the DEA raided the office of family practitioner Dr. Anthony Choe in Chelsea.
AnnArbor.com photo
Choe's office at 1600 Commerce Park Drive was raided Wednesday by Drug Enforcement Agency officials on a federal search warrant, AnnArbor.com previously reported.
Police believe Choe; patients Clarence D. Bentley and his wife Kelly Bentley, of Albion; and four other unidentified patients have delivered thousands of Oxycodone pills to dealers in Kentucky over the past two years, according to the report.
An official from Operation UNITE, an anti-drug coalition of individuals, institutions, agencies and businesses, told the newspaper the agency has been working with the DEA. UNITE covers 29 counties, including Pike county, from which the charges originate.
Read the full Williamson Daily News story.
Comments
bugsmum
Wed, Sep 19, 2012 : 10:53 a.m.
This physician is a wonderful and caring man who helps recovering addicts. I do not for a moment believe that he knowingly participated in any illegal activity. It seems he was manipulated by a couple of very desperate people. I am in no position to judge anyone or their choices to survive, however I feel it is inexcusable to drag this wonderful doctor's name through the mud because he cared enough to provide medication that he believed was medically warranted.
Whatever
Wed, Sep 12, 2012 : 4:06 p.m.
Deb Farmer: With what you say maybe true why lie about a very professional doctor's involvement when he just got caught up with sympathy. He has helped my husband HUGE and now we can't even find a doctor to help they are all refusing to take his clients. Those "PILL HEADS" screwed it up for other people needing true help without all the stero types!.
Deb Farmer
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 5:39 p.m.
I'm glad someone out there understand's how desperate people do desperate thing's. There isn't a person on this planet who hasn't done something they don't regret. Myself insluded. Yes what they did was wrong, and hopefully no-one was hurt, but everyone deserve's understanding and forgiveness. Including Kelly and Dwayne. Thank's for giving a little understanding to "why" they did what they did.
BhavanaJagat
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 4:31 p.m.
Environment and Human Behavior : Deb Farmer provides some clues to the behavior that is reported in this story. We can often discover an external environmental stimulus or factor that may motivate human action and behavior. I ask people to discover the internal potency that can guide, regulate, and restrain human behavior. I call this internal potency as the 'soul', or spirit; the vital, animating, life principle found in all living entities. The soul or spirit can uplift man from his pain and misery and can give a sense of hope as this life principle is always connected to an external source of cosmic energy that supports all existence.
Deb Farmer
Tue, Sep 11, 2012 : 4:20 p.m.
I know the people that got caught selling the oxy's and they are not bad people, just desperate people. I don't condone drug dealing of any kind, but when your crippled and can't work you find yourself in a situation where you need to eat, have bill's to pay, and then you do desperate thing's. Unless you've been in that situation, don't judge.
BhavanaJagat
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 5:52 p.m.
THANKS TO "OPERATION UNITE' : I want to express my thanks to 'Operation Unite' for helping DEA to execute this search operation in Chelsea. The problem of drug use and abuse needs greater attention as this story reveals the involvement of people with professional qualifications who provide care and comfort. All of us have the same desire to find satisfaction and contentment in our living experience, but the use of prescription drugs to find happiness may lead us to misery and failure. There is a need to promote the spiritual well-being of all people without using drugs or chemical substances.
LXIX
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 2:31 p.m.
Doctors are only granted a license to push the legitimate corporate stuff in tightly regulated quantities to keep profits margins high. When they cross over the border into free market supply and demand drug dealing then they are encroaching onto uncle sam's turf and him donna likit. Ya got dat wize guy?
Birdie
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 12:29 p.m.
I hope he enjoys running the clinic at Milan Federal Prison.........
AAR
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 1:22 a.m.
Someone call Raylan Givens.
WalkingJoe
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 4:48 p.m.
Gee annarbor.com, I saw a report on this on WDIV's website Friday.
Jojo B
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 12:52 p.m.
@Barb's Mom: Simply because annarbor.com is an operation that focuses more on fluffy "look at this new restaurant that opened"-type articles than true investigative journalism. They are a bit lacking in depth and funding for that sort of thing. But, if you don't expect much, you won't be disappointed.
a2citizen
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 3:14 a.m.
barbs mom: there were more important things going on in Ann Arbor that needed to be covered, mainly a football game. Maybe you should start reading www.chelsea.com
Barb's Mom
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 1:14 a.m.
@Kyle No where in the story that you had the link to does it say that the Dr was arrested. Just that a search warrant was served. @a2citizen WDIV had a report he was arrested on Friday and it takes until Sunday for AA.com to report this? Why?
Kyle Mattson
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 10:32 p.m.
Hi WJ- Here is a link to our report from Thursday: http://bit.ly/aadc-cdr
a2citizen
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 10:25 p.m.
your point?
Ron Granger
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 3:53 p.m.
Given the alarming epidemic of prescription drug abuse, and doctors who act as "pill factories", they aren't making nearly enough busts.
justcurious
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 3:25 p.m.
I guess perhaps he decided he couldn't make enough money as a doctor and started pedaling misery.
Basic Bob
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 2:27 p.m.
They call it hillbilly heroin.
Brad
Mon, Sep 10, 2012 : 1:12 p.m.
If it had only taken Limbaugh's voice instead of his hearing.
sh1
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 8:42 p.m.
It was Rush Limbaugh's drug of choice.
Rod Johnson
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 4:38 p.m.
Everyone knows that.
cinnabar7071
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 4 p.m.
And how would you know this Billy Bob.
DBH
Sun, Sep 9, 2012 : 2:22 p.m.
If the charges prove to be accurate, delivering thousands of Oxycodone pills over 2 years has a high likelihood of involving complicity on the part of at least one pharmacist somewhere.