DETROIT – Four men, including two physicians from Bloomfield Hills and Ann Arbor, have been indicted in a $7 million illegal opioid distribution conspiracy, federal authorities said.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dr. Shakeeb Chinoy, 55, of Bloomfield Hills; Dr. Sunil Manjila-Varghese, 53, of Ann Arbor; Rommel Harvey, 43, of Detroit; and Gregory Sparks, 42, of Detroit, are accused of conspiring to distribute prescription opioids to individuals who had no legitimate medical need for the drugs.
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Federal prosecutors allege that, between November 2023 and June 2025, Dr. Chinoy and Dr. Manjila issued thousands of prescriptions for highly addictive opioids—including Oxycodone, Percocet, Norco, Oxymorphone, and Promethazine with Codeine—totaling more than 400,000 dosage units.
The drugs had a street value of over $7 million, and Medicare and Medicaid were fraudulently billed for more than $1 million in unnecessary medications.
“Doctors take an oath to do no harm and to care for others. These doctors and professionals broke that oath to fill their pockets and used their respected positions of trust to push addictive opioids. They are drug dealers in white coats,” said U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.
Authorities emphasized that an indictment is only a charge, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.