News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 21, 2010
Contact: Special Agent Roberto Bryan
Number: (504) 840-1360

Pharmacist Sentenced to Over 5 Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THADRIAN JOHNSON, age 49, a resident of Hahnville, Louisiana, was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to sixty-eight (68) months in prison, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Lemmon ordered that JOHNSON be placed on two (2) years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment, during which time the defendant will be under federal supervision and risks an additional term of imprisonment should she violate any terms of her supervised release. JOHNSON pled guilty to conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense controlled substances in June 2009.

According to court documents, JOHNSON was charged in a 17-count indictment along with co-defendants Candace Wilson, Monica Jones, Joseph Braud, Ples Dobbins, Deshawn Whatley, Jimmie Lee Winters, and Joshua Williams, with conspiracy to illegally distribute and dispense controlled substances, illegal distribution and dispensation of controlled substances, conspiracy to commit health care fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Monica Jones and her sister, Candace Wilson, established Stanton Trinity Medical Group, Inc., Maximum Pain Management, LLC, and Reddi Care Ambulatory Clinic, LLC, pain management clinics in New Orleans, Lafayette, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jones, Wilson, Dobbins, and JOHNSON (a pharmacist) also opened a pharmacy, Southern Discount Drugs, to service the customers of Stanton Trinity Medical Group. The clinics offered patients “pain managementâ€