A young Florida man who hacked into doctors’ phones, commandeered their prescribing privileges and issued tens of thousands of prescriptions is under arrest in New York, prosecutors announced Friday.
Devin Anthony Magarian, 21, allegedly used those credentials to issue prescriptions for Oxycodone, Promethazine and Codeine throughout the United States.
He is charged in Nassau County with 19 drug charges, including criminal sale of a controlled substance, after a Long Island pharmacist tipped off authorities, law enforcement sources said.
Bobby Bamdad is a pharmacist at Shafa Pharmacy in Great Neck. He said he knows every customer he fills a prescription for, but one script last February didn’t seem right.
So he contacted the authorities and alerted nearby pharmacies.
Nassau County officials won’t say if he was the one who made the call, but investigators did receive a call from a pharmacist in Great Neck around the same time who had a similar story which launched the year-long investigation.
Officials say the investigation revealed Magarian was leading an elaborate, multi-state conspiracy that fraudulently compromised the e-prescribing credentials of doctors throughout the United States and then used those credentials to issue tens of thousands of prescriptions for narcotics across the country.