By Hector Gonzalez
Staff Writer

June 8, 2015 -- A doctor who ran a pain clinic in Santa Monica will have to wait in jail at least until next month for the start of his trial for illegally prescribing drugs.

Dr. Daniel Shin faces 27 counts stemming from what Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Jane Robison called “an elaborate scheme” to fill fake prescriptions for oxycodone using his office manager Thomas Mark Oseransky and employee Dyno Travato West as stand-ins for patients.

Shin operated his former pain-care clinic on the second floor of a squarish medical office building that dominates the corner at Wilshire Boulevard and Harvard Avenue. A call to his office Friday said the number had been disconnected.

Healthgrades.com, a physician referral site that allows doctors to upload free profiles, lists his specialties as pain medicine and anesthesiology. His profile page lists numerous conditions Shin treats, including back and ankle injuries, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and “withdrawal delirium.”  

Prosecutors charged Shin with 21 felony and five misdemeanor counts. Charges range from conspiracy to obtain controlled substances by fraud to issuing false prescriptions to identity theft to possession of controlled substances and being under the influence of a controlled substance, said Robison.

On Friday, a judge set July 1 for the start of his trail, according to the D.A.'s media office.

If convicted, Shin faces up to nine years in local custody. Oseransky faces up to four years, four months in local custody. West, who has a prior residential burglary conviction, faces a maximum of 14 years in state prison, said Robison.

Oseransky was released after posting $30,000 bail; Shin and West remain in custody.

Arrested in February of last year, Shin pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in March 2014. In April of this year, a judge ordered his bail raised from $150,000 to $500,000, according to Los Angeles Superior Court records.

Since then, Shin has been held at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, according court and Sheriff's Department records.

The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department's Health Authority Law Enforcement Task Force and is being heard at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, where a preliminary hearing for Shin was held in May 2014.

California Medical Board records show that in 2009 Shin was placed on probation by the board for two years after admitting to violating the state Business and Professions Code for failing to disclose a misdemeanor conviction.

Shin was disciplined again in 2012 for failing to complete a clinical training program. He was placed on five years probation.

In March 2014, was Shin ordered by Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Robert Longoria to “cease and desist from the practice of medicine,” according to medical board records.