Florida Man Charged In 'Wide-Ranging' Drug Conspiracy: Nassau DA

MINEOLA, NY — A Florida man has been charged in connection to commandeering electronic prescribing privileges of multiple doctors to issue thousands of narcotic prescriptions, prosecutors announced.

Devin Anthony Magarian, 21, was arraigned on Jan. 17 on charges that include first-degree criminal substance of controlled substance and second-degree criminal diversion of prescription medicine and prescriptions.

"This is one the most complex and technologically sophisticated drug operations we’ve ever witnessed,” said Nassau County District Attorney said. “We learned that Devin Anthony Magarian and his associates are part of a wide-ranging conspiracy in which they surreptitiously commandeered the e-prescribing credentials of doctors. The defendant and his associates then used those compromised accounts to issue and fill tens of thousands of prescriptions for narcotics and other controlled substances in Nassau County and multiple states."

Donnelly said that in February 2023 an unnamed defendant was arrested outside of a Great Neck pharmacy after picking up two prescriptions that were not in his name. After an extensive investigation, it was determined that the unnamed defendant was in contact with Magarian.

Magarian is allegedly a leader in an elaborate, multi-state conspiracy that has fraudulently compromised the e-prescribing credentials of doctors throughout the United States, prosecutors said.

Magarian typically used the privileges to create prescriptions for Oxycodone, and Promethazine and Codeine, a common cough syrup that is abused by drug users.

As part of the scheme, associates of Magarian, or runners, allegedly picked up prescriptions at pharmacies in multiple states, Donnelly said. The prescriptions were typically issued in fictitious names and sent to both chain and mom-and-pop pharmacies.

Magarian faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

He is due back in court on February 5.