Seashore Drugs in Wilmington, located off Carolina Beach Drive, and its former owner and pharmacist-in-charge will pay $1 million in civil penalties for allegedly over-filling prescriptions for opioids and ignoring red flags. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy Google Maps)
WILMINGTON Wilmington-based Seashore Drugs Inc., its former owner John Waggett, and its pharmacist-in-charge Billy W. King II will pay $1,050,000 in civil penalties for allegedly dispensing opioid prescriptions egregiously for several years.
This week a federal court entered into a consent order with the pharmacy, its former owner, its pharmacist, and federal prosecutors to settle a complaint filed by federal prosecutors in October.