A Central California woman pleaded guilty May 5 to using doctors’ medical credentials to distribute controlled substances and help immigration applicants obtain “green cards.”
Chantelle Lavergne Woods, 54, of Nipomo, in San Luis Obispo County, pleaded guilty to one count of presentation of false immigration document or application and one count of possession with intent to distribute phendimetrazine, a weight-loss drug, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles.