ORLANDO, Fla. — FBI agents arrested a Daytona Beach chiropractor on Friday on charges involving illegal prescription pain pills and health care fraud.
Joseph Wagner's office was raided by FBI agents in August of 2011, and Eyewitness News found out that Wagner recently tried to flee the country.
As the FBI wraps up this major investigation, Wagner is now in jail.
According to the FBI working out of Daytona Beach, Wagner learned about all the facts of the investigation this past March and started traveling to the Dominican Republic.
The FBI charging affidavit reveals that Wagner may have had plans to start a new life. Agents believe the father of Volusia County Councilman Josh Wagner was about to run and hide in the Dominican Republic where he wanted to marry a prostitute.
Agents said he was going to fly out of Orlando International Airport this week, but they arrested him before he could get away.
It all started in 2009. Wagner's arrest affidavit shows the FBI first found out about his Daytona Beach office through state officials. They received complaints from insurance companies that Wagner was charging them for services and treatments that never happened.
After the FBI took over the investigation, special agents found out Wagner distributed thousands of prescription pills after five minute office visits and a back crack.
This past march, a good deal of what the FBI knew was revealed to Wagner.
That is when the report says he bought round trip tickets and flew twice to the Dominican Republic last month. He even had a bank account with $3 million in Dominican currency, equal to $76,000. Then, a confidential source told agents that Wagner was going to leave again, but this time without a return trip.
Investigators said Wagner has ties to a doctor who was arrested in South Florida, and that he was using that doctor's medical license and prescription pad to prescribe pills.
Wagner is being held without bond.
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