VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Virginia Beach plastic surgeon has been sentenced to one year of probation for possession of what police believed to be prescription medication returned from patients in 2021.
On Aug. 28, 2021, Virginia Beach police stopped John Stuart Mancoll, 59, and found he had oxycodone and a stronger opioid called hydromorphone, or Dilaudid, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Mancoll reportedly told the officers that he had prescriptions for the drugs. However, the evidence at trial showed that the pills did not match any of his past prescriptions. Instead, the pills matched those of unused pills he told his patients to return, which he kept under his office desk, according to the DOJ.
After the traffic stop, police searched his medical practice and found at least five patient prescription bottles at the foot of his desk, missing in total of more than 100 oxycodone pills. At the trial, Mancoll testified that he believed someone planted pills in his prescription bottle found at the traffic stop.
On top of probation, Mancoll will have to pay a $20,000 fine and serve 400 hours of community service.
