Mexican Woman Admits Illegally Selling Prescription Drugs in Houston
Style Magazine Newswire | 9/29/2017, 1:31 p.m.
Source: Ice.gov
A Mexican woman was convicted Friday after pleading guilty to conspiring to smuggle prescription drugs into the United States, and receiving and delivering misbranded drugs with the intent to defraud. This guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez, Southern District of Texas. This investigation was conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations, and the Houston Police Department’s Major Offenders Division. Carolina Aguilar Rodriguez, 47 admitted she purchased prescription drugs from individuals who were not licensed wholesale distributors, and knowing they had covertly and illegally entered the United States from El Salvador and Mexico. These drugs were not manufactured in the United States, were not approved for use in the United States, should not have been present in the United States, and did not contain labels and warnings in English as required by law to protect consumers.
