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of a good take back program she had! just missed a few regulatory steps it
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<P align=left>More than a year after her arrest on drug-possession charges,
Lake Arrowhead Village pharmacist Michelle Lynne Blain has been formally
charged with four felonies, a prosecutor for District Attorney Michael A.
Ramos said Tuesday.<BR><BR>In a complaint filed Oct. 21, Deputy District
Attorney Rebeca Hynds charges the 49-year-old business owner with four counts
of possession for sale of a controlled substance.
<P align=left><SPAN>The charges stem from her arrest in her Cedar Ridge
Estates home on Oct. 15, 2009. Investigators doing a parole check on her
boyfriend, thrice-convicted bank robber Robert Flory, reported finding more
than 20,000 prescription pills in plastic bags stored in her garage.<BR><BR>A
spokesperson for the California Board of Pharmacy said at the time that while
it is legal for a pharmacist to have such medications on the premises of a
pharmacy, it is unlawful to have them at home unless the pharmacist has a
prescription for them.<BR><BR>Flory was also arrested but was later released.
He died on Sept. 5 at Mountains Community Hospital after Blain called 9-1-1
from her home to report he was unresponsive.<BR><BR>Sheriff's investigators
have said they suspect painkillers may have contributed to the death of the
former University of Arizona football star. In an interview last year, Flory
told The Mountain News he suffered from acute back pain from football
injuries, and had robbed banks to get money to buy drugs to control
it.<BR><BR>eight<BR><BR>postponements<BR><BR>After eight scheduled
arraignments were postponed, dating back to last December, Blain is now
scheduled for arraignment on Nov. 1 before Judge Annemarie G. Pace, according
to court records. She remains free, and operating the pharmacy, on the $60,000
bail she posted a year ago.<BR><BR>The postponements were credited in court
records to the continuing nature of the investigation. Hynds said the delay
might have been caused by the fact that "there were multiple agencies
investigating the case."<BR><BR>In addition to sheriff's narcotics detectives
probing the drug seizure, federal drug enforcement agents have reportedly been
investigating a nationwide drug-trafficking case, though DEA officials have
refused to comment on the status of their investigation or its
details.<BR><BR>The third agency, the state board of pharmacy, has brought
administrative charges against Blain. They include fines of nearly $9 million
and the prospect of the revocation of her license.<BR><BR>Blain was also
interviewed by authorities in connection with Flory's death, though sheriff's
homicide investigators have yet to state whether she is considered a suspect.
Autopsy reports on that case have yet to be completed.<BR><BR>When contacted
following her arrest last October, Blain told The Mountain News she had been
involved in Internet sales of prescription pills in an effort to compete with
large pharmaceutical outlets that sell at lower prices, but had stopped that
practice at the direction of the state pharmacy board.<BR><BR>She had taken
the pills-which she said had been returned to her by customers who no longer
needed them-to her home to inventory them at the direction of state regulators
before having them destroyed, she said.<BR><BR>'no comment'<BR><BR>On Tuesday,
however, Blain declined to discuss the charges against her. When offered the
chance to state her side of the case, she curtly replied, "No comment. Talk to
my lawyer."<BR><BR>San Bernardino defense attorney Greg Kassel did not return
a call seeking information about the case.<BR><BR>In the criminal complaint
against Blain, Hynds lists four separate counts. The first, an alleged
violation of Health and Safety Code Section 11375(b), Blain purportedly "did
unlawfully possess for sale a designated controlled substance, to wit,
Alprazolam."<BR><BR>According to Internet websites, alprazolam, whose trade
name is Xanax, is used to treat anxiety disorders and panic
attacks.<BR><BR>The second count cites the possession for sale of atropine
sulfate with diphenoxylate, described on the National Institute of Health
website as an anti-diarrheal.<BR><BR>The third count involves possession for
sale of zolpidem, which treats insomnia, while the fourth charges her with
possession for sale of phentermine, an appetite suppressant used for weight
loss.<BR><BR>According to provisions in the Health and Safety Code, conviction
on all charges could translate to as much as 15 years in state prison, if the
highest level of confinement were ordered by a judge and the sentences ran
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