Judge: No bail for Reno doctor charged in Nevada pill case
(AP) — A federal judge has refused to set bail for a Reno doctor who has been jailed for 10 months while awaiting trial on charges for his alleged role in an illegal prescription painkiller ring.
Dr. Robert Rand is scheduled to go to trial in April 25 on three felony drug charges, including one count of illegally distributing a controlled substance causing death.
West, 40, admitted as part of a plea bargain agreement he bought oxycodone and other prescription opioids from Rand and sometimes sold the pills out of his pickup truck in the parking lot at the Jones West Ford dealership where West worked as manager and his father was the owner.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched an investigation in 2015 after receiving tips that Rand was writing prescriptions for cash-only payments.