PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has
been sentenced in federal court to 3 years of probation, a condition of which
requires 75 hours of community service, on his conviction of distribution of
oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, United States Attorney Scott W.
Brady announced today.
On July 19, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Joy
Flowers Conti imposed the sentence on Michael C. Pegher, 47, of Pittsburgh, PA.
According to information presented to the court at the time
of his guilty plea, Pegher, from April 2013 to September 2014, unlawfully
distributed more than 3,000 oxycodone tablets he acquired by prescription from
Alan Barnett, M.D. Alan Barnett entered a guilty plea on August 26, 2016, to
unlawfully distributing prescriptions for oxycodone to Pegher and others,
knowing that the recipients were drug addicts or were unlawfully distributing
the drugs to others, and was sentenced to 5 years’ probation, to include 8
months of home detention, and 250 hours community service. Barnett was also
ordered to pay $50,000.00 in fines.
Assistant United States Attorney Carolyn J. Bloch prosecuted
this case on behalf of the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted the
investigation that led to the prosecution of Pegher.
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