Men Sentenced for Selling Counterfeit Drugs Shipped from China, India
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington announced on February 14, 2011, that James Armstrong, a retired dentist, and his son, Gregory Armstrong, were sentenced for selling and dispensing counterfeit drugs with the intent to mislead or…
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defraud. According to the records filed in the case, on April 9, 2010, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in Los Angeles intercepted a package that had been sent from China addressed to a mail box in Washington, containing 2,544 pills of counterfeit erectile dysfunction drug Viagra® and 260 pills of Cialis®. Over the course of a year, 22 packages arrived at the box from China and India. James Armstrong was sentenced to a $30,000 fine and one year of supervised release. His son was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, two years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine.