ALBION, Mich. (WOOD) — An Albion pharmacy is under new ownership while the two men who operated it previously remain under federal investigation.
John C. Shedd and Terry Tooley, both pharmacists, ran Parks Drug Store on Superior Street in Albion before new owners took over.
Shedd and Tooley are accused of dispensing “massive” amounts of widely-abused drugs, mostly opioids, while ignoring multiple red flags about the legitimacy of the prescriptions.
A federal forfeiture complaint alleges that the pair “knew or should have known that the prescriptions were not issued for legitimate medical purposes.”
According to the document filed in U.S. District Court, Parks Drug Store filled more than 130,000 prescriptions for controlled substances from 2012 to 2016.
That’s almost five times the amount of prescriptions dispensed at another Albion pharmacy during the same time frame.
The complaint contends that Parks also filled more controlled substance prescriptions than Meijer Pharmacy in Kalamazoo, a city that has two major hospitals and ten times the population of Albion.