On June 19, 2019, a psychiatrist who practiced at a Santa Ana clinic was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for issuing prescriptions for controlled substances, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, alprazolam and amphetamine salts, to a non-patient in exchange for cash, admitting in his plea agreement that the prescriptions were without a medical purpose and he knew the drugs would
be diverted and sold on the street.
Dr. Robert Tinoco Perez was sentenced by Judge Andrew J. Guilford. Dr. Perez
pleaded guilty on February 25, 2019 to one felony count of conspiracy to distribute
controlled substances.
Dr. Perez admitted that he wrote prescriptions for “patients” he had never met or examined,
including an undercover officer. Dr. Perez admitted that he created fictitious medical records
for drug customers to provide justification for their prescriptions.
