Indian-origin medico charged with felony

Indian-origin medico charged with felony

Indian-origin medico charged with felony

Los Angeles, March 13
Former ‘Playboy’ playmate Anna Nicole Smith’s boyfriend and two of her doctors, including an Indian-origin medic, have been charged with supplying her addictive prescription pills for nearly three years before she died of an accidental overdose.

Smith’s boyfriend and attorney Howard Kevin Stern, 40, doctors Sandeep Kapoor (40) and Khristine Eroshevich (61) have been each slapped with three felony counts of conspiracy and several other charges relating to illegal prescriptions.

They were charged with conspiring to “commit the crimes of prescribing, administering and dispensing controlled substances to an addict” and “unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance”, the offices of the California attorney general and Los Angeles County district attorney announced.

“These individuals furnished thousands of prescription pills to Anna Nicole Smith, often for no legitimate medical purpose,” California Attorney General Jerry Brown was quoted by the Los Angeles Times as saying in a statement.

“There is ample evidence that Eroshevich and Kapoor violated their ethical obligations as physicians, while Stern funnelled highly addictive drugs to Smith,” he said.

According to the statement, the three provided the reality TV star with “opiates, benzodiazepines, and other controlled and non-controlled substances”. Smith died on February 8, 2007, at the age of 39 at a luxury hotel in Hollywood. A medical examiner said accidental overdose of prescription drugs was the cause of death.
— PTI