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A Rosedale woman has pleaded guilty to the conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and money laundering, the U.S Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced Wednesday.
57-year-old Terry Allen pleaded guilty to trafficking thousands of oxycodone pills and laundering millions of dollars, officials said.
Authorities revealed that in 2022, during an investigation into another target, the FBI found that the target paid Allen over $270,000. The FBI later learned that Allen supplied the target with diverted prescription drugs, and as a result, officials identified Allen as the leader of a Baltimore region drug trafficking organization (DTO). Then, agents learned that Allen's DTO "flooded the Baltimore community with thousands of diverted oxycodone pills," according to the guilty plea.
To acquire the oxycodone pills, individuals were recruited by drug traffickers to enter "pill-mill" clinics with fake complaints of pain to receive a prescription for Schedule II controlled substances. These people were referred to as "pseudo-patients," and DTO members would deploy them to the "pill-mills."
In February 2023, law enforcement was authorized to intercept phone calls and text messages, in which calls revealed Allen was distributing vast quantities of oxycodone, according to authorities.
The calls revealed that Allen would openly discuss the amount of drugs she possessed to resell. Allen and another supplier would collaborate to manage the pseudo-patients. The other supplier would manage 12 of the pseudo-patients to get the oxycodone, then the supplier resold it to Allen. They additionally discussed inventory, arranged and transferred the pseudo patients to pill mill clinics, and arranged them to pass urine screenings, officials reported.
Throughout the investigation, agents learned of Allen's money laundering, in which her bank records showed that she received and spent more than $2 million from 2017 to 2023. Allen's drug transactions would be through peer-to-peer applications like Zelle and Cash App.
In May 2023, agents searched Allen's residence in Rosedale, where Allen agreed to speak with agents and admitted to using pseudo-patients to get oxycodone and reselling it on the streets.
During the search, officials said they located " approximately $39,380; drug ledgers; a calendar with annotations regarding medical appointments for pseudo-patients; distribution quantity of oxycodone pills, suboxone strips, and Adderall pills; a Glock 19 9mm handgun; and a Remington 12-gauge shotgun. The money and firearms were connected to Allen’s drug trafficking activities."
Allen was arrested but was soon released after her bail hearing, and in August 2023, while on home detention, law enforcement learned she was distributing oxycodone again. In September 2023, officials searched her home and located two pill bottles with 200 oxycodone 20 MG pills.
Through the conspiracy, officials said Allen sold "4,454 pills, containing 30 milligrams of oxycodone for $45 per pill; approximately 12,835 pills, containing 20 milligrams of oxycodone for $30 per pill; approximately 6,749 pills, containing 15 milligrams of oxycodone for $20 per pill; and approximately 770 pills, containing 30 milligrams of Adderall for $20 per pill."
Allen faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison, followed by up to a lifetime of supervised release. The sentencing is scheduled for August 26 at 10 a.m.
