U.S. Federal authorities have arrested Dr Noel Blackman, who was recently appointed Chairman of the Georgetown Hospital Corporation and is a former Health Minister under the PNC for his suspected involvement in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three States.

According to a report in the Long Island Newsday by Robert E. Kessler, Dr Blackman was charged in the United states for illegally writing scores of prescriptions for a narcotic based painkiller ‘- Oxycodone.

Dr Noel Blackman

Kessler’s report stated that Blackman was arrested late Sunday at Kennedy Airport after the U.S. federal authorities suspect that he was illegally prescribing vast amounts of oxycodone — 365,000 pills in 2015 — in a drug-dealing enterprise spanning three States.

Agents took Noel Blackman, 68, into custody after they ordered a Guyana-bound jet taxiing for take off with Blackman aboard to return to an airport terminal. Blackman — under investigation for several weeks — was intent on permanently leaving the United States, according to a tip agents received before they headed him off at the airport. After the plane returned to the terminal at about midnight Sunday, Blackman was arrested and later charged with conspiracy to distribute the narcotic.

Federal agents with Homeland Security Investigations also found $30,000 in cash stashed in his luggage, officials said.

According to Blackman’s prescription records checked by federal authorities, the 365,000 oxycodone pills came from 2,487 prescriptions — a marked increase from the 114 he wrote for 3,800 pills in 2014 and 63 written in 2013 for 2,100 pills.

Blackman, who  is also co-owner of HBTV Channel 9 in Guyana, had offices in Franklin Square, in Elmhurst, Queens, and in Brooklyn, was arraigned late Monday in Central Islip federal court on the charge of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. U.S. Magistrate Anne Shields ordered Blackman held as a flight risk, pending future hearings. Black was not required to enter a plea, officials said.

The extradition treaty between the United States and Guyana is in a state of flux and being renegotiated, officials said. Blackman’s attorney, Alan Nelson, declined to comment on the case, as did Eastern District Assistant United States Attorney Bradley King.

The doctor’s secretary, Eva Torres, 31, of the Bronx, was also arrested on the same narcotics conspiracy charges and appeared in court for her arraignment Monday. She also was not required to enter a plea, but was released on $50,000 bond.

Torres’ attorney, Tracy Gaffey, and King each declined to comment.

Until his arrest, Blackman had practiced surgery and pain management from offices in Franklin Square, Elmhurst and Brooklyn and most recently lived in Far Rockaway, but was a longtime resident of Valley Stream.