A Rancho Palos Verdes physician was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly wrote prescriptions for powerful painkillers and muscle relaxants to an undercover agent who showed him an X-ray of a dog, authorities said.
Dr. Richard Seongjun Kim, 42, was charged with 21 counts of illegally prescribing drugs with no legitimate medical need to undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agents, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Agents posing as patients visited Kim’s Western Avenue clinic over the course of three months in 2014, prosecutors said. Kim allegedly wrote prescriptions for Norco, Xanax, Soma and Adderall without performing physical exams, taking vital signs or filling out medical charts.