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He’s also accused of selling or transporting a controlled substance on Nov. 28, 2021.

Investigators plan to ask prosecutors to also charge Cortez for operating or maintaining a drug house for the sales or distribution of controlled substances.

For example, a Louisiana law went into effect this week designating the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances, making possession without a prescription carry a maximum five year prison sentence.

Plasencia, although forbidden by the Drug Enforcement Administration from prescribing controlled substances, continues to practice medicine but must inform patients about the ongoing criminal case.

His nephew, Clifford Abihai, 49, was also arrested and this week pleaded not guilty to one count of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor.