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Date: 03-23-2022

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United States of America v. Keowsha Golden

Case Number: 6:20-cr-00767-DCC

Judge: Donald C. Coggins, Jr

Court: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina (Greenville County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

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Description: Greenville, North Carolina criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.

Keowsha Golden, age 36, from Greenville, South Carolina obtained prescription paper and then forged physician information to write prescriptions for 30 milligram oxycodone tablets. The prescriptions were passed at various pharmacies in the upstate of South Carolina and in western North Carolina. Golden used drug addicts and homeless persons to pass the prescriptions. She provided the prescription passers with the money to pick up the prescriptions as well as fraudulent identification documents. Golden sold the bottles of oxycodone tablets to others at the wholesale rate of $2,800 to $3,500 per bottle.

During the execution of a search warrant at Golden’s residence, law enforcement officers seized her personal telephone and laptop which revealed fraudulent prescription templates, physician information, and copies of driver’s licenses used by prescription passers at various pharmacies.

United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins sentenced Golden to 130 months imprisonment, to be followed by a three-year term of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.

The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), Laurens Police Department, and Greenville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Watkins prosecuted the case.

21:846 CONSPIRACY TO DISTRIBUTE NARCOTICS. FORFEITURE
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Outcome: The defendant was committed to the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons to be imprisoned for a total term of 130 months, followed by a term of supervised release for 3 years. $100 special assessment fee due immediately.

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