Drug Ring at Methodist Hospital

The halls of Seventh Avenue's Methodist Hospital were the headquarters for an elaborate prescription drug ring.

According to court documents and the New York Post, a doctor, his stripper-turned-med-student girlfriend, a lawyer and one other engineered the sale of thousands of Adderall pills—the drug used for attention-deficit-disorder—to those seeking uppers in Park Slope and beyond.

Former Park Slope resident Pauline Wiltshire, 30, sold the drugs over Craigslist and other internet sites, which were illegally prescribed to her and others by her boyfriend, Dr. Michael H. Gabriel, an anesthesiology resident at the hospital.

According to court documents, other Methodist residents were also part of the ring, though their names were not made public.

The Drug Enforcement Administration was able to nab the pushers thanks to a member of the ring that cooperated with authorities. Before the indictment was announced, according to the paper, on Sept. 8, Gabriel pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute the drug and since then has been living in Ohio. After an undercover drug purchase from Wiltshire was made in September, she was arrested on Christmas Day. She is now also living in Ohio, on bail and under house arrest.

According to court documents, the ring sold over 11,000 Adderalls between May 2008 and April 2010.