CRANBURY — A local pharmacist has voluntarily allowed his license to be suspended after being indicted Oct. 23 as part of a drug ring dealing in painkillers, officials said Monday.
Howard Hirsh, 61, of Cranbury was one of three pharmacists working at the Plainfield Pharmacy that agreed this week to have their licenses suspended after being charged Oct. 23 with taking part in a ring of distributing illegal painkillers in Florida, according to a spokesman for the state attorney General’s Office.
According to officials, Mr. Hirsh and pharmacists Daniel Podell, 87, of Clark and Lawrence Zaslow, 59, of Cherry Hill, worked at the pharmacy which is owned by fellow defendant, and Florida resident, Lana Wiseberg.
The men allegedly filled thousands of prescriptions for the painkillers oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine sulfate for pain clinics in Florida connected to Ms. Wiseberg and her family, according to the indictment handed down in the U.S. Southern District of New York court last month.
Howard Hirsh, 61, of Cranbury was one of three pharmacists working at the Plainfield Pharmacy that agreed this week to have their licenses suspended after being charged Oct. 23 with taking part in a ring of distributing illegal painkillers in Florida, according to a spokesman for the state attorney General’s Office.
According to officials, Mr. Hirsh and pharmacists Daniel Podell, 87, of Clark and Lawrence Zaslow, 59, of Cherry Hill, worked at the pharmacy which is owned by fellow defendant, and Florida resident, Lana Wiseberg.
The men allegedly filled thousands of prescriptions for the painkillers oxycodone, hydromorphone and morphine sulfate for pain clinics in Florida connected to Ms. Wiseberg and her family, according to the indictment handed down in the U.S. Southern District of New York court last month.