Pain Doctor's Plea Agreement Would Require 10 Years' Probation, No Prison Time
Monday, November 6, 2017 | 0
A Central Indiana pain-management physician has moved to plead guilty to possession of narcotics, insurance fraud, Medicaid fraud and issuing an invalid prescription.
Tristan Stonger's plea agreement, which was negotiated with prosecutors on Thursday, would require him to spend 10 years on probation, the Kokomo Tribune newspaper reported.
The 70-year-old Stonger ran Pain Management Centers of Indiana, which had offices in the cities of Peru, Bloomington and Indianapolis. He was arrested in January after a three-year federal investigation by agents who spent months surveilling his Peru clinic.
A 55-count indictment came down against him after his arrest. Stonger agreed to plead guilty to five of the charges if the remaining 50 were dropped.
Judge Tim Spahr will accept or reject the plea agreement during a Nov. 30 hearing.
Stonger's case made headlines earlier this year after investigators told the press that he had traded prescription pills for sex and work on his farm. Federal agents also told news outlets that two patients had died from overdoses after Stonger refilled their prescriptions.
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