AURORA | A former high-ranking doctor at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora accused of illegally acquiring thousands of prescription pills has reached a plea agreement, according to court documents.
The lawyer for Dr. Louis Constantine Hampers filed a motion June 2 in federal court saying the doctor had reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. The motion asked for a hearing before a judge to discuss the deal.
Terms of the deal were not included in the court documents.
Hampers was arrested last fall in Virginia on more than 650 charges after a federal grand jury indicted him Aug. 26.
According to a statement from federal prosecutors, Hampers conspired with others to acquire generic Vicodin and generic Ambien. Hampers is also accused of 654 counts of fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, including generic Vicodin, generic Ambien, generic Valium, and in one instance, generic Ritalin.
In total, federal prosecutors say Hampers illegally obtained over 20,000 tablets of Hydrocodone at multiple different pharmacies using five different aliases and eight different patient names.
A hospital spokeswoman said last fall that Hampers was head of pediatric emergency services at the hospital and left the Children’s in March 2010.
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