Eufaula Man Sentenced To 160 Months For Drug Conspiracy

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JAMES WESTLEY RADFORD, age 28, of Eufaula, Oklahoma was sentenced to 160 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.

Charges arose from an investigation by the Navarro County Sheriff’s Department in Texas, the District 18 District Attorney’s Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General.

The defendant was indicted in July, 2015 and pled guilty in August, 2015.

The Indictment alleged that beginning in or about October 2014 and continuing to in or about January 2015, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, the defendant knowingly and intentionally agreed with other persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to illegally obtain Schedule II and IV controlled substances by means of presenting fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies and conspired to possess with intent to distribute and distribute Schedule II and IV controlled substances.

As part of the conspiracy the defendant would obtain stolen prescription pads, legitimate DEA numbers and copies of doctor’s signatures from the Jack C. Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center, for the purpose of forging prescriptions of controlled substances.  The defendant would recruit people to present those forged prescriptions on his behalf in return for pay and then distribute the fraudulently obtained illegal drugs or trade illegal drugs for other drugs.

The Honorable James H. Payne, District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearing.  The defendant will remain in the custody of the United States Marshal Service pending transportation to the designated federal facility at which he will serve his nonparolable sentence.

First Assistant United States Attorney Doug Horn represented the United States.