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A former doctor arrested by Madison Heights police last year was sentenced Monday to more than five years in federal prison for writing bogus prescriptions and identity theft.
Dimitar Cvetkoski, 41, of Warren was arrested on Valentine’s Day 2018 by Madison Heights police. U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman sentenced the former physician to 64 months in prison.
Madison Heights investigators worked with Troy police special investigation detectives and the Oakland County Sheriff’s Narcotic Enforcement Team on the case. An undercover officer posed as a drug buyer and the former doctor was picked up in a bar parking lot near 14 Mile and Dequindre roads.
Ultimately, the case was taken over by the FBI.
Cvetkoski told Madison Heights police at the time of his arrest he was down on his luck and needed money. Police said he was abusing opioid and other drugs and had bottles of controlled prescription tranquilizing drugs that were generic equivalents for Valium, Klonopin and Xanax when he was arrested.
Police said they found he also had hundreds of stolen credit card numbers and counterfeit prescription forms.
Madison Heights police were altered to the case last year after receiving a call from security officials at St. John Hospital, police said.
Cvetkoski had run ads in the “men seeking women” section of Craiglist.
In his ads, he said he was a doctor who had prescription medications and party favors available at a hotel in Madison Heights.
“He was using the drugs to try and lure in the ladies,” Madison Heights Police Lt. Michael Siladke told the Tribune earlier this year after Cvetkoski pleaded guilty in U.S District Court in Detroit.
The former doctor stole the identities of two local physicians to create fake prescriptions and distributed the drugs, which he also abused, authorities said.
In a statement from U.S Attorney Matthew Schneider’s office, authorities said Cvetkoski admitted he engaged in credit card theft and illegally had 130 credit card numbers belonging to other people.
Cvetkoski was born in Yugoslavia and became a U.S. citizen.
He had a license to practice medicine that expired in 2010 and was never renewed. He had been in a physician residency program at St. John Hospital, but was unable to complete it. Police said he was a resident doctor at other hospitals and failed to keep those jobs as well.
At the time of his arrest, Cvetkoski had outstanding warrants for retail fraud in Gaylord, domestic violence in Warren and identity theft in Utica.