Kissimmee Man Accused on Compromising Doctors’ Phones to Steal Prescribing Credentials and Sell Drugs
When you get tired of listening to old people complain about how the young generation relies on smartphones for everything, try asking them to kvetch about the youth’s lack of computer literacy. Especially if the old fogeys have worked as teachers or in managerial roles where they supervised Generation Z employees, they will complain about how young people cannot properly execute a Google search or attach a PDF file to an email. An ongoing criminal case in Florida casts a vote in favor of the young, though. A young Florida man allegedly breached the smartphones of physicians in order to forge prescriptions for controlled substances, but prosecutors do not know how he did this. Sometimes proving a defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt requires more in-depth knowledge of technology than the average person possesses. If you are being accused of participating in a drug conspiracy involving technological sleight of hand, contact a Florida drug offenses attorney.
In Order to Persuade the Jury of How You Allegedly Used the Technology, Prosecutors Must Understand It Themselves
Devin Magarian of Kissimmee is only 21 years old, but it has taken an entire team of prosecutors a full year to investigate what he has been doing with his smartphone, and they are still not sure of all the details. They allege that Magarian sold drugs such as oxycodone and lean, selling more than $250,000 of merchandise per month for more than a year. Magarian would allegedly breach the cell phones of doctors so that he could steal their e-prescribing credentials; he would then use the stolen credentials to set up a prescriber account on his phone, prescribe the drugs that customers requested and send the prescriptions to pharmacies where customers would pick them up. The customers were located in several states, and Magarian never used the same prescriber account for more than two weeks before switching to a new one.
The authorities became suspicious when a man in his early 20s went to a pharmacy and picked up a prescription for narcotics written for a man in his 50s, and the investigation eventually led to Magarian and his phone. Prosecutors are still not sure how Magarian was able to access prescribers’ information. In other words, they had enough evidence to arrest him, but if they want to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, they will have to rely on forensic experts to come up with a detailed explanation of how Magarian implemented his plan. If they do convict him, he can face a prison sentence of up to 25 years. Until then, like all defendants in criminal cases, Magarian has the presumption of innocence.
Contact FL Drug Defense Group About Drug Cases
A Central Florida criminal defense lawyer can help you if you are a defendant in a drug case where proving your guilt or casting reasonable doubt on prosecutors’ claims will require sophisticated arguments about technology. Contact FL Drug Defense Group in Orlando, Florida to discuss your case.
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