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On February 27, 2009, Joey Bartolucci walked into East Coast Pain Clinic. He received 150 Dilaudid painkiller pills and 30 Xanax pills, according to prosecutors in Palm Beach County. Sometime that night or the next day, Bartolucci died. Medical examiners attributed the death to an overdose.
second-degree murder and conspiracy to traffic Dilaudid in connection with the patient's death.
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