STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island man accused of running a prescription ring with a South Beach woman pleaded guilty earlier this month, authorities said.

Doraymus Robinson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, and will be sentenced June 28 in Brooklyn federal court, said his lawyer, Paul Petrus.

Robinson and his co-defendant, Carolyn Richardson, of Lamport Boulevard, were busted last year for running a prescription drug ring that included filling fake prescriptions to obtain pills, like Xanax and Oxycodone, to sell to their clientele, authorities allege.

Richardson's case is ongoing and her next appearance in federal court is on April 28. If the case can't be resolved by that time, a trial date will be set, according to court records.

Richardson, who remains in custody, is charged with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone, acquiring Oxycodone by fraud, conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and healthcare fraud, said the criminal complaint.

Her attorney did not return a request for comment about the case.

Starting in January 2015, Richardson, and Robinson, allegedly used phony prescription pads to obtain methadone, Xanax and Oxycodone from numerous pharmacies in New Jersey. They paid for them with cash or Medicaid cards and recruited others to write prescriptions, according to the federal criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

After the duo's accomplice was arrested, the person became an informant for drug agents and told the authorities Richardson would provide them and Robinson with fake prescriptions to fill in New Jersey, originally thinking they were for home-care clients until realizing the illegal operation was going on for years, the complaint said.

The accomplice then went undercover in December and engaged in a buy operation with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the drug ring unraveled.

During the operation, the complaint alleges, Richardson was caught selling the informant 200 Xanax pills for $1,000 in her apartment, and the transaction was caught on video.

On Dec. 21, 2015, Richardson was also recorded selling fake prescription pads in the name of Dr. Carl Anderson to the accomplice for $3,000, according to court documents.

STORAGE RAID

Both defendants, the complaint alleges, kept blank prescriptions and a gun in a storage unit at the Stop & Stor facility on Quintard Street in South Beach. The unit, leased under a fake name with the Lamport address, was raided by the cops. Authorities recovered thousands of prescription pill bottles, a Ruger firearm, a currency counter, a pill counter, laptops and notebooks with lodging prescription transactions and dozens of driver's licenses, state ID's, social security cards and New York State Benefit ID cards, the complaint said.

The unit also had 150 fake prescription pads with Dr. Carl Anderson's name with the contact number belonging to Richardson, authorities allege.

Richardson originally thought Robinson had gutted the facility and complained to the informant that her "stash and everything was gone," the complaint said.

Richardson, authorities said, continued filling fraudulent prescription pills with Dr. Anderson's name from April to July 2016.

On July 24, police stopped her coming out of a New Jersey pharmacy and recovered 180 Oxycodone pills and 120 methadone tablets that were filled with the fake doctor's prescription, the complaint said.

ALLEGED HARASSMENT

Richardson was originally released on bail last summer, but on Aug. 4, according to court records, she violated her bail conditions when she allegedly left a threatening voicemail for the former accomplice who turned informant.

The message, according to a letter filed by federal prosecutors, said:

"I cannot believe you, I thought you were my friend."

"You know, you put everything on me, as if you were an innocent bystander."

"You know damn well you were not."

"You kicked me underneath the rug. And Karma is a b----."

"But it's OK, I forgive you."

"But just know I don't take betrayal very well."

"I hope you feel like s---, I really do."

On Aug. 16, Richardson was detained on grounds that she's a threat to the community, according to court records.

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