Case DIH-0728
Martin Escobar
A Lake Milton, Ohio, physician who from 2015 to 2019 prescribed oxycodone and hydrocodone, often with benzodiazepines and stimulants, using false diagnoses and falsified charts; two patients died of overdoses of drugs he prescribed.
- Court
- Federal, Northern District of Ohio
- State
- Ohio
- Year sentenced
- 2022
- Drugs
- Oxycodone; hydrocodone
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- Prescriber / patient
- Conviction
- Illegal prescribing (54 counts), including distribution causing the deaths of two patients and distribution to a person under 21; health care fraud (31 counts)
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 300 months imprisonment
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what Ohio’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see Ohio in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govFormer mahoning county physician sentenced 25 years prison illegally prescribing
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