1United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.

Eastern District of Louisiana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016
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LOCAL DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR ILLEGALLY DISPENSING CONTROLLED

SUBSTANCES AND THREATENING TO KILL LAW ENFORCEMENT
NEW ORLEANS U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the unsealing of a criminal
complaint against SHANNON CHRISTOPHER CEASAR, age 43, a physician who practices in
Metairie and resides in New Orleans. On Friday, July 22, 2016, CEASAR was arrested on
charges of drug distribution and threatening to murder law enforcement agents. According to
court records, CEASAR illegally dispensed and conspired with others to illegally dispense
controlled substances, including Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance. In addition,
based on recorded telephone calls secured by law enforcement, CEASAR was charged with
threatening to assault and/or murder federal law enforcement officers with the intent to impede,
intimidate, or interfere with such law enforcement officers while engaged in the performance of
official duties, or with the intent to retaliate against such law enforcement on account of the
performance of official duties.
Some of the threats made against law enforcement officers and the medical board include:
God help them, I swear to godI have a f*$&ing arsenal in there enough to supply a small
militia, you know I collect guns, I swear to god if they come in there with a warrant Im going to
kill every single one of those sons of bitches.
I am very seriousthey wont even be able to have an open casket funeral. There will be
nothing left above the adams apple.
And Im not sure if the time comes if Im going to do it right there in the clinic or if Im
going to somehow break into the DEA office in that building by the lake and just f*$&ing blow
the place up but somehow a vast majority of the DEA agents in this area will lose their lives if
they f*$& with me.

Same thing goes for the medical board, thatll be even sweeterthey are downtown.
New Orleans will be all over the national news again because of me.
What Ill do is make Baton Rouge look like a f*$&ing kindergarten.
CEASAR made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Daniel E.
Knowles, III on Friday, July 22. At a detention hearing held today before U.S. Magistrate Court
Judge Karen Wells Roby, CEASAR was ordered detained.
As alleged, rather than doing no harm as a physician, Shannon Ceasar illegally
dispensed Oxycodone into a community struggling with an epidemic of opioid addiction, stated
U.S. Attorney Polite. Then, when the governing medical board and law enforcement dared to
challenge his criminality, Ceasar threatened to kill them. This level of disregard for human life,
particularly from a physician, is absolutely despicable.
If convicted of the charges in the criminal complaint, CEASAR will face a maximum of
not more than 20 years in prison on the drug charges, pursuant to Title 21, United States Code,
Section 841(a)(1) and 846, and not more than 10 years in prison for threatening to murder a
federal agent, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 115(a)(1)(B). CEASAR will
also be subject to a fine of not more than $250,000 and a term of supervised release for three
years, following any term of imprisonment.
U.S. Attorney Polite praised the work of the Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigations, Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services OIG in investigating this matter. Assistant United States Attorneys Shirin Hakimzadeh
and Myles Ranier are in charge of the prosecution.
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