Fresno Man Sentenced to Over 7 Years for Conspiring with Pharmacist to Illegally Traffic Hundreds of Thousands of Opioid Pills

July 31, 2025 – Kelo White, 44, of Fresno, was sentenced on Monday to seven years and six months in prison for illegally

distributing oxycodone and hydrocodone pills, Acting U.S. Attorney Kimberly A. Sanchez announced.

Oxycodone Photo Credit: DEA

According to court records, from 2014 through 2018, White and Donald Ray Pierre, 56, of Fresno, obtained more than 450,000 oxycodone and hydrocodone pills based on fraudulent prescriptions that were filled by their co-conspirator, Ifeanyi Vincent Ntukogu, 49, of Fresno, who was a pharmacist in Madera. White was responsible for more than 250,000 of those pills. The fraudulent prescriptions were purportedly from more than 10 different doctors whose signatures had been forged…

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