Doctor Sentenced in Mexican Drug Smuggling Case
An Escondido physician was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison in connection with charges that he smuggled Mexican pharmaceuticals into the United States, authorities said.
Miguel Castillo admitted that he smuggled Neomelubrina, a non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug not yet approved in the United States, across the Mexican-American border between November 1994 and July 1998 to his home in Escondido, according to Assistant U.S. Atty. Melanie Pierson.
After the drugs were taken to Castillo’s home, they were repackaged and relabeled in English, then dispensed to patients at Polyclinica Familiar, Castillo’s clinic in Escondido, authorities said.
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