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Doctor arrested in Hesse for legal drug prescriptions

The police also searched the pharmacy in the same building because the doctor had allegedly prescribed narcotics.

Offenbach – The allegations against an addiction doctor from Offenbach with a practice in Rumpenheim are serious. According to the Darmstadt public prosecutor’s office, he is said to have unlawfully prescribed narcotics and sexually abused a patient using his treatment relationship. The accused was then arrested by special forces in Offenbach on Monday morning and is scheduled to be brought before the judge on Tuesday. As a result, investigators searched the practice rooms above a pharmacy with a large contingent.

In the course of the search, the public prosecutor confirmed, evidence was also searched for in the pharmacy’s premises. The pharmacy was therefore closed. A notice informed customers about „technical problems“ as the reason. The raid was preceded by extensive investigations against the doctor, who had been causing a stir in the district with his practice for years. Because to his Regular customers apparently primarily belonged to addiction patients who picked up the handle there and regularly hung around on the nearby Kurhessenplatz or the churchyard of Heilig Geist while waiting. And this despite the fact that, according to the investigators, the man had long since lost his statutory health insurance license and was only allowed to issue private prescriptions.

Doctor in Rumpenheim is said to have illegally prescribed narcotics

In addition to the complaints about junkies in Rumpenheim, there were quickly reports of black bodies with Aschaffenburg license plates that stopped in front of the practice, especially in the evenings. „A man then gets out, goes to the practice and comes out a little later with a stack of private recipes“, says a neighbor, describing his observations. „Most of the prescriptions are then redeemed directly in the pharmacy on the ground floor“, the witness continues. This doesn’t seem far-fetched: the pharmacy explicitly offers well over 100 different ones on an online presence Hemp varieties for submission to.

In investigative circles, the observation is interpreted as follows: Because stricter dispensing guidelines apply to medically prescribed cannabis in Bavaria, dealers in Hesse, for example, would legally obtain the substance from pharmacies using private prescriptions and pay for it in cash. The drugs would then be resold and further private prescriptions would be paid for with the profits – an apparently extremely lucrative cycle that, due to the arrest, should now be broken, at least for the time being.

Doctor rented rooms from pharmacy

However, this does not seem to be the only point of contact between the pharmacy and the doctor’s office: „The practice rooms were actually rented by the pharmacy and were sublet to the doctor“, confirms the Offenbach real estate company entrusted with looking after the house when asked by the editorial team. A connection that the investigators are now investigating based on a corresponding witness statement from the neighborhood and which would be an explanation for the police’s interest in the pharmacy premises. The owner of the pharmacy did not respond to a request for a statement by the time of going to press.

Meanwhile, other neighbors report abnormalities in connection with the practice: They report feces and urine in the stairwell, and that their own children preferred to avoid the house because they were afraid of the junkies waiting there. „It’s been going on like this for years“, says a father from the immediate neighborhood, describing the conditions. „We have complained about the situation in every possible place, but at least nothing has happened to date.“ That has now changed with Monday’s large-scale operation.