Sex For Pills: Owings Mills Pharmacist Sentenced To 40 Months

BALTIMORE, MD — An Owings Mills man who used to be a pharmacist was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison this week for conspiracy to distribute and distributing oxycodone. Prosecutors said that he gave oxycodone to women in exchange for sexual favors.

Richard Daniel Hiller, 64, of Owings Mills, pleaded guilty to the charges, officials said.

While working at a pharmacy in Towson, he reportedly admitted to filling fake prescriptions for two women between 2014 and 2017, directing them to come to the pharmacy before it opened so that he could engage in sex acts with them in the back area of the pharmacy. Afterward, he would fill prescriptions that he knew he been fraudulently obtained, according to the plea agreement.

Prosecutors said he filled the prescriptions before a required 30-day window expired and filled prescriptions that were in the names of others, including family members, to hide the conspiracy.

He distributed about 20,500 pills over the course of the conspiracy, in the amount of 15 milligrams of oxycodone, officials said.

There was a third woman who obtained oxycodone from him starting in 2014, prosecutors said, and she often did not have any prescription at all. Other times she used different names to obtain oxycodone from two different doctors, and Hiller admitted to filling both prescriptions knowing that they were obtained by fraud.

In return for filling the prescriptions, the woman allowed Hiller to grope and kiss her, and he asked for nude photos and videos of herself, prosecutors said, citing the plea agreement.

Once she rejected his advances, he called her doctors and notified them she was fraudulently obtaining prescriptions from both of them, officials said.

“Hiller abused his position of trust and exploited women who were addicted to oxycodone to obtain sexual favors," U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur said in a statement. "Those who divert pharmaceutical drugs for illegal purposes further the tragic cycle of addiction and the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths."

U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Hiller to serve 40 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release and to pay a fine of $15,000.

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