Bowie Doctor Sentenced to 42 Months for Fake Prescription Drug Conspiracy

A Bowie resident was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after regularly visiting an Annandale doctor's office to collect fraudulent prescriptions for opioids that were then funneled into pharmacies across more than a dozen states.

Zion Oluwademilade Adeduwon, 24, of Bowie, was sentenced March 9 in U.S. District Court in Roanoke. Adeduwon pled guilty in April 2025 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone-chlorpheniramine solution, and to obtain possession of promethazine-codeine by fraud. In addition to prison time, he was ordered to forfeit $100,000 to the government.

He is the first of the co-conspirators charged with drug distribution to be sentenced.

The case traces back to a clinic just across the Prince George's County line. The conspiracy began in 2022 when, after an almost 30-year career as an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Rotimi Iluyomade leased office space at the Crossover Medical Center and opened a pain management and weight loss clinic. Adeduwon frequented Iluyomade's clinic regularly to get fake oxycodone, Tussionex, and lean prescriptions, paying about $300 for each one and requesting that they be written in fake names and addresses.

Beginning in 2023, multiple individuals provided Iluyomade with lists of multiple "patients" with fake identifying information or different variations of names and false addresses, and requested prescriptions be sent to pharmacies throughout the United States for the "patients" on the lists. Iluyomade issued the requested prescriptions without examining the "patients" and often co-prescribed non-controlled medications such as steroids and antibiotics to attempt to make the prescriptions for controlled substances look legitimate.

Court documents show that in at least 2023 and 2024, Iluyomade and several others entered an agreement to distribute oxycodone pills and hydrocodone-chlorpheniramine solution to pharmacies in more than 13 states, including Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, West Virginia, and Florida.

Iluyomade, who has since pleaded guilty, was convicted of distributing staggering quantities: more than 7,000 oxycodone pills, 34,000 milliliters of hydrocodone-chlorpheniramine solution, known as Tussionex, and 107,000 milliliters of promethazine-codeine solution, known as "lean."

Also charged in the conspiracy and awaiting trial or sentencing are Obioma Alozie Ndubuka, Raymono Alfonzo Russel II, Cameron Isaiah Lewis, Elhadj Malick Diallo, Kenechukwu Brian Okwara, and Yared Michael Tesfaye. Several of those defendants, including Russel II, Lewis, Okwara, and Adeduwon, are also Bowie residents.

The investigation involved multiple federal and state agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Virginia State Police, the Salisbury Maryland Police Department, HHS-OIG, and the Food and Drug Administration. With Adeduwon now sentenced and at least two other co-defendants having since entered guilty pleas, the case against the remaining members of the network moves steadily closer to its conclusion.