Fugitive Fake Drug Trafficker Flees After Conviction
After being convicted of conspiring to traffic fake medication, En Wang, 32, owner of a Houston based company, while free on bond, fled the country prior to his sentencing.
Wang was sentenced in absentia to 33 months in federal prison without parole on March 28, 2011. Homeland Security Investigators believe that Wang left the US on September 18, 2010 first for Mexico, with eventual arrival in China, announced the Justice Department.
Wang was convicted after a jury trial of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit drugs and causing the introduction of counterfeit and misbranded drugs into interstate commerce. The four-count indictment filed against Wang in February 2010 charged him with conspiring with others in the Peoples Republic of China to traffic in counterfeit goods and trafficking in counterfeit and misbranded pharmaceuticals.
Agents seized 6,500 loose fake erectile dysfunction tables at a mail facility in San Francisco, CA in early January 2010 which were in transit to an individual in Houston, named Ken Wang.
An HSI agent testified during trial that he had been notified of the seizure by an officer with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) assigned to the San Francisco mail facility. After performing several record checks for the name Ken Wang, the agent determined that a person named En Wang with the same Ashford Chase Drive address had recently returned to the United States on an international flight that originated from China. An inspection of Wang’s luggage revealed he had a large number of erectile dysfunction tablets hidden in a calcium bottle.
The agent testified he obtained a search warrant for Wang’s residence and coordinated a controlled delivery of the two packages containing the tablets on Jan. 13, 2010. After Wang signed for the packages using the name Ken Wang, agents searched the residence and found 300 additional loose tablets. Chemists testified that the tablets in the two packages as well as the tablets found inside Wang’s residence were counterfeit and contained a substance used to manufacture sheetrock and an insufficient quantity of active ingredient.