Crime & Safety
Bloomfield Township Doctor Charged in Drug Sting
Dr. Mohammad Amin, of the Healing Hands Urgent Care facility in Sylvan Lake, prescribed narcotics to undercover investigators with the Oakland County Sheriff's Department, authorities said.
A Bloomfield Township doctor faces multiple charges for allegedly prescribing narcotics without proper examinations to patients that were really undercover officers.
Dr. Mohammad Amin, 59, was arraigned Tuesday on two felony counts of drug delivery, and one misdemeanor count of violating his prescription license in 48th District Court in Bloomfield Township, records show. He was taken to the Oakland County Jail on $10,000 bond, which he posted before noon Tuesday, Undersheriff Mike McCabe said.
He is scheduled to appear before a judge for a pre-trial hearing on Nov. 18. An attorney was not immediately available to comment Tuesday.
Investigators with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) raided Amin's office at the Healing Hands Urgent Care center in Sylvan Lake, and his home in the 3700 block of Wabeek Lake Drive East simultaneously Monday, a news release stated. They seized multiple computers, iPads, tax documents and prescription pads during the searches.
The raids culminated an investigation that began with patient complaints in June. Undercover NET officers posed as patients and visited Amin on three separate occasions at his office over the past few months. Each time, Amin prescribed controlled substances without a medical necessity, and without proper examinations, authorities alleged in their warrant request.
Amin is a board-certified pediatrician with more than 30 years experience in family and urgent care medicine, according to the Healing Hands website. The clinic specializes in occupational medicine, worker's compensation, and lab services.
"It is sad when a trained healer veers from that path and their hippocratic oath and becomes a pill mill that enables addiction and the destruction of lives,” Sheriff Michael Bouchard said in the news release. “I congratulate our undercover team that put together this long and complex case.”
The NET is a multi-jurisdictional drug task force comprised of officers from 13 local departments, and headed by the Sheriff’s office.
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