Pharmacist pleads innocent, jailed

YOUNGSTOWN — A pharmacist has pleaded innocent to 24 counts of sale of dangerous drugs in an alleged long-distance Internet prescription scheme.

On Tuesday, Gary A. Evankovich, 53, of Devonshire Drive, Boardman, appeared with his lawyer, Michael J. McGee, at his arraignment before Magistrate Timothy G. Welsh of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Magistrate Welsh set bond at $100,000 at the request of J. Michael Thompson, assistant county prosecutor; and Evankovich was led away in handcuffs by sheriff’s deputies following his arraignment.

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