Frankford Family Pharmacy
Outcome
Pharmacist-owner David Robinson sentenced March 2021 to 171 months (14+ years) in federal prison for distributing oxycodone and alprazolam outside professional practice and ordering a murder-for-hire on the informant who reported him.
Details
Frankford Family Pharmacy — Criminal Drug Distribution and Murder for Hire (2015–2021)
Outcome: David Robinson, pharmacist-owner of Frankford Family Pharmacy in Baltimore, was sentenced on March 4, 2021, to 171 months (approximately 14 years and 3 months) in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a fraudulent drug distribution scheme and attempting to have the informant who exposed him murdered.
David Robinson, 51, owned and operated Frankford Family Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland. Between April 2015 and June 2017, Robinson dispensed oxycodone and alprazolam outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. Robinson distributed approximately 12,330 units of alprazolam, with a street value of approximately $2 per milligram, and 10,000 milligrams of oxycodone, with a street value of approximately $1 per milligram, based on fraudulent prescriptions.
A confidential source advised law enforcement that Robinson knowingly filled fraudulent prescriptions at the pharmacy. Robinson pleaded guilty to federal drug distribution conspiracy charges. While awaiting sentencing on the drug charges, Robinson arranged for a hit on the person he believed had cooperated with law enforcement and led to his indictment — a murder-for-hire attempt that added a separate federal charge.
Robinson pleaded guilty on December 17, 2020, to a federal charge of murder for hire. At sentencing on March 4, 2021, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III imposed a total sentence of 171 months, combining the drug distribution and murder-for-hire offenses. The case demonstrated the lengths to which some pharmacy owners will go to conceal illegal dispensing, and highlighted the danger to informants in controlled substance diversion investigations.
How Crucible Prevents This
Robinson's operation was exposed by a confidential informant who reported the fraudulent prescription scheme to law enforcement. A Crucible compliance system with immutable audit logs and anomaly detection would have surfaced the pattern of fraudulent alprazolam and oxycodone prescriptions internally, creating a documented record that would have made it impossible to conceal the violations — removing the need for an informant and reducing the window for harm.
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