EKB News

Fifty-five year old Randy Weiss, a former Philadelphia doctor, has been sentenced for his role in a drug ring that imported tens of thousands of pain pills into eastern Kentucky. Timothy Wayne Hall of Floyd County has pleaded guilty to being the leader of the ring in which people from Floyd County went to doctors, including Weiss, and brought 200,000 pills back to the area over a period of several years. Weiss pleaded guilty to improperly writing prescriptions for 11,000 methadone pills to Hall and others who paid $500 for an office visit. He was sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by a year of home confinement, 3 years supervised release and paid $50,000 for his role.