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January 25, 2011
Contact: SA Edward Marcinko
PIO Baltimore Dist. Office
Number: 410 579-5033


Catonsville Dentist Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
for Selling 140,000 Hydrocodone Pills

JAN 25 -- BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Dr. Kenneth Riley, age 49, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 30 months in prison, followed by 10 months of home detention with electronic monitoring as part of three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute hydrocodone. Judge Bennett also entered an order of forfeiture of $157,350, the amount of proceeds from Riley’s drug dealing, and ordered Riley to pay a $25,000 fine.

The sentencing was announced by Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration Washington Field Division; United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Chief James W. Johnson of the Baltimore County Police Department; and Special Agent in Charge Nicholas DiGiulio, Office of Investigations, Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

“When somebody betrays the public trust, it is disappointing. In Dr. Riley’s situation it was also criminal,â€