Springs doctor given probation for selling narcotics

Colorado Springs physician Peter W.S. Grigg was sentenced Thursday to serve five years probation and 180 days in-home detention for illegally distributing prescription narcotic drugs, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The sentence begins Jan. 1.

Grigg, 49, also was ordered to forfeit nearly $17,000 in cash and several valuable coins, and he agreed to abandon nine firearms, according to the agencies.

Grigg was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on Jan. 6, and pleaded guilty before a U.S. District judge in August. According to his plea agreement, Grigg sold prescription drugs to undercover police officers on several occasions.

In addition, Grigg was arrested in September and is accused of taking $300 from an undercover cop in exchange for a prescription for medical marijuana.

That case, which is pending, was cited by 4th Judicial District Attorney Dan May in presentations last month to the Colorado Springs City Council and El Paso County commissioners on the proliferation of unregulated marijuana dispensaries in the area supplying patients suffering from chronic pain and other conditions.