STARKE COUNTY, Ind. (STMW) — A former Starke County, Ind. doctor who admitted to conspiring to illegally sell controlled drugs has died from a heart attack, according to court documents.
Dr. Andrew DeSonia, 49, had most recently been charged in U.S. District Court in Hammond on charges of forging a doctor’s signatures on a prescription.
DeSonia was already serving time in the Morgantown Federal Correctional Institution in Morgantown, W. Va., for pleading guilty to taking part in a company called Jive Network that would let people sign up online, list their symptoms, and then get doctors such as DeSonia to write prescriptions without ever seeing them or verifying the patients were who they said they were.
The most recent charges were filed in November and have been dropped because of DeSonia’s death, according to a court filing.
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