Brooklyn Man Sentenced for Marlboro Pharmacy Theft

A Brooklyn man was sentenced Wednesday to 65 months in prison for his involvement in a plot to steal oxycodone and other drugs from the Union Hill-Supremo Pharmacy in Marlboro, and then sell the stolen narcotics for cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

David Mordukhaev, 22, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone. Judge Wolfson imposed the sentence Wednesday in Trenton federal court.

According to the District Attorney’s office, the Union Hill-Supremo Pharmacy in Marlboro Township was burglarized shortly after 4 a.m. on June 17, 2012. Mordukhaev and his fellow conspirators filled 17 garbage bags and two cardboard boxes with merchandise from the pharmacy, including 1,988 dosage units of methylphenidate, 500 dosage units of hydromorphone, 300 dosage units of Opana (a trade name for oxymorphone) and 3,800 dosage units of oxycodone – all Schedule II controlled substances.

The value of the stolen drugs is approximately $335,000.

Mordukhaev admitted that he stole the drugs, and that he did so knowing they would be sold for profit, according to the District Attorney’s office.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Wolfson sentenced Mordukhaev to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $334,722 in restitution.

Two of Mordukhaev’s conspirators, James Zarbailov, 23, and Dzheykhun Avshalumov, 24, both of Brooklyn, have previously pleaded guilty to the same charge. Zarbailov was sentenced to 63 months’ imprisonment on Nov. 18, 2013. Avshalumov’s sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 19, 2013.

U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI’s Red Bank Resident Agency, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Aaron T. Ford in Newark, and law enforcement officers from the Marlboro Township Police Department, under the direction of Police Chief Bruce E. Hall, for the investigation leading to today’s sentence.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Clabby of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Division in Trenton.