Indictments Issued For Child Porn, Illegal Immigration, Prescription Drug Crimes
Posted: 12:14 pm EDT October 7, 2009
Updated: 12:57 pm EDT October 7, 2009

WHEELING, W.Va. --

Three individuals were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Wheeling.

Acting U.S. Attorney Betsy C. Jividen said Garrett Carrigan, 33, was charged with the transportation of child pornography via a computer on July 13 in Wheeling. If convicted, Carrigan faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

The case will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Perri. The case was investigated by the FBI in Wheeling and New Mexico. Jose Zamora-Ortiz was charged with the reentry into the United States on June 1 without the consent of the secretary of Homeland Security or the U.S. attorney general to reapply for admission to the United States, after having been deported on March 12, 2008. If convicted, Zamora-Ortiz faces a maximum penalty of two years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

The case will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul T. Camilletti. The case was investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Dr. Rajan Bakhshish Masih, 46, of Petersburg, W.Va., was named in a 24-count superseding indictment charging him with illegally distributing controlled substances to patients on 20 separate occasions between Oct. 23, 2007, and Nov. 22, 2008.

The indictment also alleges that on four occasions between Nov. 28, 2007, and Feb. 20, 2009, Masih illegally distributed and dispensed controlled substances to individuals resulting in the death of those individuals from the use of the substances.

The indictment says Masih did not distribute the substances for legitimate medical purposes in the usual course of his professional medical practice.

If convicted, Masih faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1 million on each of the distribution counts and a statutory mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a maximum penalty of life in prison and a fine of $1 million on each of the distribution counts resulting in death.

The case will be prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert H. McWilliams Jr. and Stephen D. Warner. The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Hagerstown, Md., Task Force; the West Virginia State Police; the Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General; the West Virginia Insurance Commission; the Grant County Sheriff’s Department; and the City of Moorefield Police Department.


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