LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A Louisiana veterinarian and a Nebraska pharmacy have been sentenced for selling an unapproved opioid drug to improve the performance of racehorses.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a Friday statement that 43-year-old Kyle James Hebert was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Kohll’s Pharmacy & Healthcare Inc. was sentenced to five years of corporate probation.
Both sentences were for several things including conspiracy and they were both ordered to pay a fine.
Evidence in the trial showed the pharmacy, which operated as Essential Pharmacy Compounding, and others conspired to distribute a synthetic form of Dermorphin.
Essential Pharmacy Compounding repackaged a synthetic form of the drug, labeled it as D-Peptide and sold it to Hebert and other veterinarians.
Hebert put the drug into syringes and gave them to racetrack trainers.
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