Merchant Pleads Guilty to Running Illegal Pharmacy
The owner of a Tustin gift shop where a toddler was treated just hours before she died earlier this year pleaded guilty Wednesday to operating an illegal pharmacy.
In exchange for the guilty plea, worked out in a bargain with the Orange County district attorney’s office, Oscar Eduardo King, 36, was fined $200 and put on probation for three years.
“He’s satisfied with the outcome,” King’s attorney, Ron Brower, said of the sentence handed down in Orange County Superior Court. “He wanted to avoid the expense of a trial.”
King was the registered owner of Los Hermanos Gift Shop, where 18-month-old Selene Segura Rios was illegally injected with a drug in February. The child, whose family had taken her there for treatment of vomiting and diarrhea, died a short time later.
Two other members of King’s family also involved in the case are fugitives who authorities think are now living in Mexico.
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