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"A Montgomery County attorney who had represented a physician at trial<br /><br />last month on prescription drug charges is now facing his own charges alleging he illegally sold prescription pain pills to an undercover Philadelphia police officer.<br /><br />Gregory Noonan, of Lansdale, Pa., was nabbed for selling more than 300, 30-milligram Oxycodone pills on two separate occasions this month and last, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney&rsquo;s Office.<br /><br />The defendant, an attorney licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania with an office in Norristown, Pa., sold the plainclothes Philly cop 179 Oxycodone pills on Nov. 23 at about 7 in the evening with the agreement that Noonan would be paid $15 per pill, according to the prosecutor&rsquo;s office.<br /><br />Then, on Dec. 19 at about 6:15 p.m., the Noonan and the undercover officer met in the lawyer&rsquo;s vehicle outside of his law office, where the officer gave Noonan $3,250 in cash in exchange for 180 Oxycodone pills.<br /><br />Montgomery County detectives arrested Noonan after the second transaction.<br /><br />County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman, in a statement, thanked Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and his department&rsquo;s Intensive Drug Unit for their assistance on the case.<br /><br />&ldquo;Cooperation between law enforcement agencies is important in criminal investigations especially where a drug dealer, because of his or her position, might be familiar with local undercover detectives,&rdquo; Ferman stated.<br /><br />The prosecutor spoke about the rising number of cases of opiate abuse in her county and the need to &ldquo;stop this dangerous trend.<br /><br />&ldquo;One of my priorities is to investigate and prosecute prescription pill traffickers,&rdquo; Ferman said in her statement. &ldquo;As you can see from this arrest of a Lawyer and our recent successful prosecution of a Doctor, no one is above the law, no matter what occupation they hold.&rdquo;<br /><br />Noonan had represented a Franconia, Pa. doctor at trial last month on charges the physician prescribed pain pills to drug addicts, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.<br /><br />The supposed &ldquo;pill mill&rdquo; was run out of the doctor&rsquo;s Montgomery County medical office.<br /><br />The doctor, Richard R. Ruth, was found guilty on Nov. 22, the day before Noonan allegedly made his first illegal drug sale to the undercover officer.<br /><br />Noonan was arraigned Dec. 20 before Magisterial District Judge Margaret Hunsicker on various drug charges, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney&rsquo;s Office.<br /><br />The defendant was remanded to the county correctional facility after failing to post $250,000 bail.<br /><br />A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for early January."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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