HOWELL — A pharmacist from Massachusetts will serve 7.5 to 15 years in prison for his role in 11 meningitis deaths in Michigan in 2012.
Glenn Chin, 56, was sentenced Friday, Oct. 11, in Livingston County’s 44th Circuit Court before Chief Judge Matthew McGivney. Chin pled no contest to 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter in August.
A no contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing.
Chin was formerly a pharmacist at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts. In 2018, he was charged by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office for his role in a 2012 meningitis outbreak. The deaths were linked to contaminated methylprednisolone, a steroid.
The deaths in Michigan were tied to treatment through the Michigan Pain Specialists Clinic in Genoa Township. Patients at the clinic were given epidural injections of methylprednisolone.
Donna Kruzich, Paula Brent, Lyn Laperriere, Mary Plettl, Gayle Gipson, Patricia Malafouris, Emma Todd, Jennie Barth, Ruth Madouse, Salley Roe and Karina Baxter died as a result of being injected with the drug.