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05-12-2009, 07:31 PM
Credit: PWInsider.com
Dr. Phil Astin, the former personal physician for the Benoit family and the late Mike "Johnny Grunge" Durham, was sentenced this morning to ten years in prison. Once the sentence is over, Astin will be subject to three years of supervised release and have to perform 250 hours of community service.
Astin pleaded guilty to a 175-count federal indictment charging him with illegally distributing prescription drugs and conspiring to distribute prescription drugs.
Astin had originally plead not guilty to the charges, which included 150 counts involving 17 patients including two patients believed to be professional wrestlers who employed by WWE at the time, but later changed his plea this past January.
Astin could have received a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million on each count.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the patients allegedly received illegal prescriptions for Percocet, Oxycontin, Demerol, Lorcet, Ritalin, Vicodin, Xanax, Adderall and Soma.
Astin also treated former ECW and WCW World Tag Team champion Mike "Johnny Grunge" Durham. Astin was linked to 32 of 36 prescriptions written for Durham in the year prior to his passing and had written a prescription for somas just a day before Durham was found dead in February 2006 - the prescription bottle was empty. Durham's widow Penny has come out strongly against Astin for enabling her husband when he should have been treating him.
Dr. Phil Astin, the former personal physician for the Benoit family and the late Mike "Johnny Grunge" Durham, was sentenced this morning to ten years in prison. Once the sentence is over, Astin will be subject to three years of supervised release and have to perform 250 hours of community service.
Astin pleaded guilty to a 175-count federal indictment charging him with illegally distributing prescription drugs and conspiring to distribute prescription drugs.
Astin had originally plead not guilty to the charges, which included 150 counts involving 17 patients including two patients believed to be professional wrestlers who employed by WWE at the time, but later changed his plea this past January.
Astin could have received a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million on each count.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the patients allegedly received illegal prescriptions for Percocet, Oxycontin, Demerol, Lorcet, Ritalin, Vicodin, Xanax, Adderall and Soma.
Astin also treated former ECW and WCW World Tag Team champion Mike "Johnny Grunge" Durham. Astin was linked to 32 of 36 prescriptions written for Durham in the year prior to his passing and had written a prescription for somas just a day before Durham was found dead in February 2006 - the prescription bottle was empty. Durham's widow Penny has come out strongly against Astin for enabling her husband when he should have been treating him.