Posted Jan 30, 2012 @ 07:02 PM, Last update Jan 30, 2012 @ 07:04 PM

http://www.tauntongazette.com/state_news/x1368170271/Stoughton-nurse-convicted-of-drug-distribution-money-laundering

BOSTON —A registered nurse from Stoughton was convicted in federal court Monday of illegally distributing prescription drugs and international money laundering.

Gladys Ihenacho, 46, of Stoughton, was found guilty after a two-week trial of conspiracy to distribute, dispense and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances; five counts of distribution of controlled substances; conspiracy to commit international money laundering; and international money laundering.

She will be sentenced May 9.

From October 2007 until October 2008, Ihenacho and her husband, Baldwin Ihenacho, a registered pharmacist conspired to distribute prescription anti-anxiety and weight-loss drugs from Meetinghouse Community Pharmacy in Dorchester, which they co-owned, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said.

Meetinghouse was the distributor for an Internet pharmacy in the Dominican Republic. Customers without prescriptions ordered drugs online and then had their orders filled at Meetinghouse, which then mailed the drugs to the customers, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

During the height of its operation, Meetinghouse shipped about 1,000 packages containing an estimated 3.5 million pills drugs per week to customers all over the United States who did not have valid prescriptions

The Ihenachos were paid an estimated $1.2 million by the Internet pharmacy operators.

Baldwin Ihenacho pleaded guilty last August to conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances; dispensing controlled substances; introduction of misbranded drugs into interstate commerce while held for sale; international money laundering; and aiding and abetting.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 17.