Crime & Safety

Encino Owner of Cash-for-Prescription Clinic Sentenced to 14 Years

Anush Davtyan, 53, pleads guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycontin and possess with intent to distribute Oxycontin.

An Encino woman convicted of running four clinics throughout the San Fernando Valley where people could buy Oxycontin prescriptions was sentenced to 14 years in prison last week, according to the Department of Justice

Last year, Anush Davtyan, 53, she agreed to a plea deal and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute Oxycontin and possess with intent to distribute Oxycontin.

She ran clinics in Reseda, Van Nuys and one in the 8600 block of Reseda Boulevard Northridge with her common-law husband where patients could buy prescriptions for following a medical exam, according to a DOJ press release.

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"Cappers brought customers to one of the clinics to obtain prescriptions for oxycodone," the statement read. "Those prescriptions were filled, and the drugs were brought back to Davtyan’s clinic and were diverted to a dealer for later sale on the street."

Davtyan also admitted to bribing pharmacists with gifts like flowers and cognac to fill prescriptions for her clinics.

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A warrant executed at her residence in September 2011 yielded 1,116 pills and another 7,589 pills in her Mercedes parked in her garage, the DOJ statement read.

Her common-law husband, Armen Ayrappetyan, remains a fugitive and is believed to be in Russia.


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