Delco Man Convicted Of Running Opioid Pill Mill

UPPER DARBY, PA — An Upper Darby man was convicted of running a pill mill out of a West Philadelphia pharmacy, according to federal authorities.

United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Anmol Singh Kamra, 27, of Upper Darby, was convicted at trial with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone outside the usual course of professional practice and with no legitimate medical purpose.

Kamra, a pharmacy technician at Campus Pharmacy in West Philadelphia, conspired two other men, who are being charged separately, to illegally distribute thousands of oxycodone pills to people suffering from addiction.

From about December 2012 through about March 2016, Kamra and the two others orchestrated and executed a scheme to turn the pharmacy into a "pill mill" in which Kamra knowingly filled fake oxycodone prescriptions written by Fisher in sham "patient" names, and gave the oxycodone pills to one of the men to sell in street level drug deals.

At times, Kamra would sell drugs without a prescription and then request that one of the men backdate a fake prescription in an attempt to cover the tracks.

Kamra testified that this backdating of prescriptions was a mere "courtesy" on behalf of the doctor so patients could receive their prescriptions in a timely manner, but undercover video evidence showed otherwise.

This small pharmacy in West Philadelphia sold so many opioids that some were hidden some under the sink for fear that their distributor would notice the over-abundance and cut them off for exceeding the allowable limit.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Mary Kay Costello and Amanda Reinitz.