An Ironton doctor and two of his patients indicted on federal drug charges will go on trial

Sept. 9 in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.

A spokesman for the U.S. District Court clerk’s office said Dr. Randall McCollister, 52, of South Point, and Donald Sherman, 40, and Lawrence Jenkins, 40, both of Ironton, will all be tried together before Judge Susan D'lott.

McCollister and Jenkins were arrested June 21 on charges of illegally distributing controlled substances, including Oxycontin. Sherman was arrested the following Monday.

McCollister allegedly wrote

prescriptions for Oxycontin to Jenkins and Sherman, often using the names of former or current patients who owed his office money and used the names of deceased or non-existent patients.

Jenkins and Sherman would then allegedly take those prescriptions, have them filled and give the pills to other people. Jenkins is also accused of using Medicaid cards to pay for the prescriptions. He used these

medical cards without the permission of the card-holders.

In June, U.S. Magistrate Jack Sherman refused to release McCollister Jenkins and Sherman, meanwhile, were released on $10,000 unsecured bonds.

The arrests were the result of an investigation that took more than a year and involved a number of local, state and federal agencies. Teresa Moore/The Ironton Tribune