What Happened
Wise, Va. dentist Newton Carroll Mullins, 65, pleaded guilty Aug. 27, 2014 to possession with intent to distribute and distributing hydrocodone (over 2,500 pills) and to obtaining hydrocodone by fraud. No sentence is stated.
Reported status: Pleaded guilty; convicted (2014); sentence not reported in the source.
About This Entry
This entry reports only what the linked source states. Fields the source does not state (for example the employer type, drug schedule or a sentence) are left out rather than inferred, so it is shorter than the registry's fully analysed cases.
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