Former Dr. Admits Selling Rx Drugs in Woodbridge Restaurant Parking Lot

A former doctor from Matawan admitted writing prescriptions for $100 payments in a restaurant parking lot on Route 1 in .

According to a press release from the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, Ki I. Song, 70, of Matawan, pleaded guilty to third degree dispensing of a controlled dangerous substance before Superior Court Judge Bradley J. Ferencz in Middlesex County on Tuesday.

In pleading guilty, Song admitted that on June 1, 2010 and March 19, 2011, he wrote prescriptions for Xanax in return for a payment of $100 without examining the recipient of the prescription. Song admitted that the exchanges with the customers took place in a restaurant parking lot on Route 1 and Gill Lane in the Iselin section of Woodbridge.

He was indicted for the crimes by a state grand jury on Oct. 21, 2011.

Song was a licensed physician practicing in Jersey City. The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners permanently revoked Song's medical license by voluntary surrender on April 20, 2011, according to the press release.

Sentencing is scheduled for May 7. According to the Office of the Attorney General, under the plea agreement, the state will recommend Song be sentenced to 364 days in county jail and a three-year term of probation in addition to 40 hours of community service. He will also be ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

Song's charges were the result of an investigation by the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Jersey City Police Department's Special Investigation Unit, according to Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Ronald Chillemi. This investigation stems from a prior investigation by the agencies called Operation MedScam.