Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first degree · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 178.25 Criminal diversion of prescription medications and
prescriptions in the first degree.
A person is guilty of criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first degree when he or she commits a criminal diversion act, and the value of the benefit exchanged is in excess of fifty thousand dollars.
Criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions in the first degree is a class C felony.
A person commits first-degree criminal diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions by committing a criminal diversion act when the exchanged benefit’s value exceeds $50,000. ★ It is a class C felony.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 4 — The Court Clerk: Penal Law; Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 3 — The Court Officer: Penal Law; Volume 3 — Your Career: Penal Law in Plain English.