Jason Cole Votrobek, 27, of Vero Beach, Fla., Jesse Violante, 32, of Vero Beach, Fla., Roland Rafael Castellanos, 32, of Cartersville, Tara Atkins, 33, of Cartersville and James Chapman, 61, of Macon were indicted on charges for their respective roles in operating a “pill mill” pain clinic which served as a front for the illegal distribution of addictive pain killers.
A press conference held at the Federal Building in Rome revealed the indictment which alleges that the clinic, operating as the Atlanta Medical Group at 16 Collins Drive, was actually a drug distribution operation seeing a high number of patients, largely from out of state, illegally distributing “hundreds of thousands of Oxycodone pills.”
According to Assistant US Attorney Scott Holsey, the volume of patients typically seen exceeded levels allowing for a sufficient medical examination.
More information will be available in Thursday’s edition of The Daily Tribune News.