CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. — The leader of a Cherokee County group accused of obtaining illegal prescriptions will spend years in prison.
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On Jan. 15, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office closed a multi-defendant RICO case after the final suspect entered a negotiated guilty plea and was sentenced.
The case involved six suspects who stole a doctor’s prescription pad to get medications. The medications included Adderall, Alprazolam, Hydrocodone, Phentermine, and Tramadol.
In Sept. 2022, police started noticing illegal activity when a Roswell medical practice learned 49-year-old Leslie Joann Archambault, who was a former employer, had been filling phony prescriptions using doctor’s credentials.
Cherokee County officials said the 49-year-old got the prescription pads while working at the medical practice. Authorities said she used the prescription pads to write prescriptions for her associates in the enterprise, as well as for herself.
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A judge sentenced Archambault to 15 years with the first three served in prison and the remainder on probation.
“This defendant has a history of committing fraud in one form or another, manipulating and using family members and friends to acquire medications that were not legally prescribed to her,” said Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Damion Overstreet, of the Gang and Organized Crime Unit. “In this case, she tried to outsmart authorities by recruiting other individuals to assist her in her scheme. Fortunately, an extensive CMANS investigation put a stop to this organized crime.”
Five others entered negotiated guilty pleas from 2022- 2025. Their sentences are as follows:
- Gina Marie Moson, 49, negotiated a guilty plea on January 15, 2025, to violation of the RICO Act, sentenced to two years to serve on probation.
- Jeffrey Moson, 46, negotiated a guilty plea on December 6, 2024, to violation of the RICO Act, sentenced to three years to serve on probation.
- Jessica Rose Weaver, 38, negotiated a guilty plea on April 19, 2023, to violation of the RICO Act, sentenced to three years to serve on probation.
- Cathy Rebecca Hudson, 41, negotiated a guilty plea on June 15, 2023, to violation of the RICO Act, sentenced to two years on probation.
- Bryan Omae Chirangu, 35, negotiated a guilty plea on December 13, 2022, to fraud or theft in obtaining a controlled substance and possession of a scheduled IV controlled substance, sentenced to five years on probation.
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