In a bodycam video of the incident played in court, Mancoll can be heard telling the officers he had prescriptions for the pills. Inside, she found a backpack containing three bottles of pills, including one with multiple types of prescription painkillers in it, which she thought was unusual. The officer said she pulled the doctor over after seeing him drive erratically and asked him for permission to search his car. Officer Rachel Nash told jurors Mancoll was already under investigation at that point and she’d been asked by a supervisor to be on the lookout for his vehicle. In other testimony Monday, two Virginia Beach police officers testified about an August 2021 traffic stop and search conducted on Mancoll’s Porsche Panamera sedan. He also said his son continued to go to Mancoll’s office for follow-up visits and another procedure. When asked on cross examination if he reported the alleged theft to police, the hospital, or anyone else, the father said no because his son didn’t want him to say anything. He said after he returned home from his son’s surgery, he counted the pills in the bottle Mancoll had handled and noticed there were only 47. The father of the 18-year-old patient was among a handful of witnesses called Monday. The types of surgeries performed also are not being disclosed. To protect the privacy of Mancoll’s patients and the patients’ families, those witnesses are only being identified in court by partial names or initials. He is not a thief,” Lorello told the jurors. The defense lawyer suggested they’re using the accusations to win legal settlements from the doctor, and that two former employees conspired against him to get out of no-compete contracts. Lorello questioned why the two patient families who claim Mancoll stole drugs from them never reported the alleged thefts and continued to go back to him for more surgeries and follow-up visits. He then closed his hand around the pills and put some - but not all - back in the bottle before putting his hand in his pocket, the father said.ĭefense attorney Mario Lorello described his client as a brilliant and caring surgeon who’s been wrongly accused. When the father handed the pill bottle to the surgeon, Mancoll poured some into his ungloved hand and pointed to a pre-cut line that could be used to divide them. Hours later, Mancoll took a break from the procedure to tell the parents about a minor complication that came up, and to ask if they’d obtained the Percocet painkillers he’d prescribed, the father said. John Mancoll told the couple to get the drugs right away so he could explain how to properly administer them, and show how the pills could be cut in half if only a partial dose was needed, according to the father’s testimony. NORFOLK - The father of an 18-year-old man who underwent plastic surgery at a Virginia Beach hospital in 2019 testified Monday he thought it was strange when the surgeon insisted he and his wife immediately fill their son’s prescriptions when they arrived at the hospital.ĭr. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close MenuĪmanda Lucier / The Virginian-PilotJohn Mancoll
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