Deadly Overdose Sending Elderly Rochester Hills Doctor To Prison

ROCHESTER HILLS, MI — A local 28-year-old woman is dead after overdosing and the family believes a “pill pushing” Rochester Hills doctor is behind her demise, according to a media report. According to Channel 4, internal medicine Dr. Chris Samy will plead guilty in the case, but is hoping for a lower sentence than the nine years that is expected to be handed down.

WDIV reported that the DEA sent in undercover agents who purchased pills -- with the higher the potency, the higher the price -- and insisted Samy wrote questionable prescriptions for hundreds of thousands of pills worth more than $2.5 million on the street.

Samy, age 70, pleaded guilty, but she cited her age and years of service against a short period of bad judgment as reasons she shouldn't go to prison. Prosecutors are asking Judge Arthur Tarnow to send her to prison for nine years.

"If you notice the type of doctors they're going after are not the mainstream doctors," Samy told WDIV. "They're going after the second-stream doctors, the foreigners, the minorities."

The family of the woman who died, however, said they couldn't believe their loved one had been so easily prescribed so many pills.

Samy is expected back in court for a ruling on Wednesday.

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