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Posted: Saturday, February 24th, 2007 6:53 AM HST
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Doctor to be sentenced in drug case
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HONOLULU (AP) _ A doctor accused of illegally distributing narcotic painkillers and welfare fraud has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in federal court in Honolulu.
Doctor Kachun C. Yeung faces possible prison time and eventual deportation to Canada when he's sentenced.
After facing 46 counts, Yeung pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally prescribing Oxycodone. It's a derivative of morphine used to treat pain. Trade names for the drug include OxyContin and Percodan.
Prosecutors say the 53-year-old Yeung came under investigation after eleven patients who were being prescribed medications by him died of drug overdoses over a two-year period ending in August 2002.
Last year, Yeung's son, Christopher, posted photographs of Drug Enforcement Administration agents on a Web site dedicated to identifying law enforcement informants and undercover agents.
(Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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