On June 21, 2018, Patrick Titus, a medical doctor formerly licensed by the State of Delaware, was indicted on charges of unlawful distribution and dispensing of controlled substances and maintaining a drug-involved premises in violation of 21 U.S.C. 841 and 856(a)(1) and 18 U.S.C. 2. The indictment alleged that Titus unlawfully distributed and dispensed controlled substances on fourteen separate occasions to various individuals. It also alleged that between 2012 and 2014, Titus maintained a place known as Lighthouse Internal Medicine that was used to distribute Schedule II controlled substances outside of the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.

On July 21, 2021, defendant Titus was found guilty of 13 counts of unlawful distribution and dispensing of controlled substances and one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises. On March 1, 2022, defendant Titus was sentenced to 240 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. In addition, Titus was ordered to pay a special assessment of $1,400 ($100 per count). A resentencing hearing for defendant Titus has been set for March 13, 2024. Titus was excluded on March 20, 2023, from the OIG's exclusion database.

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