Ex-doctor indicted on drug charges

RALEIGH -- A federal grand jury has indicted a former doctor from Cary on charges of illegally prescribing drugs, including Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Diazepam and Alprazolam, from a clinic in Sampson County.

Perry Reese III, 49, was named in a three-count indictment Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today. The indictment charges him with two counts of distributing a controlled substance and one count of racketeering activity.

Reese ran Roseboro Urgent Care in Roseboro until law enforcement agents closed the office in April 2003. The state Board of Medical Examiners revoked his medical license in 2005. At the time, his address was listed in Cary.

The indictment charges that from April 2002 to April 2003, drug users would come to the Roseboro office and ask at the front desk for a prescription. The person at the front desk would ask the drug user how many pills he or she wanted and then provide a prescription for a price. The person at the front desk would then take the money to Reese, according to the indictment.

Other drug users would pay Reese directly for prescriptions, according to the indictment. When the office was closed, from December 2002 to February 2003, drug users would contact Reese and arrange to buy prescriptions, the indictment charges.

The drug charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine, and the racketeering charge is punishable by a maximum 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine.