The chairman of the Hocking College governing board allegedly filled hundreds of illegal online orders for prescription drugs, according to a report in The Columbus Dispatch.

Steven Holtel, a pharmacist and chairman of the Board of Trustees at Hocking, a two-year college in Ohio, has been accused of supplying drugs to people across the nation who never saw the physicians who wrote their prescriptions. A criminal investigation is pending.

This is not Mr. Holtel’s first brush with the law. Mr. Holtel, the owner of Stoltz Drugs, was convicted in 1989 of felony theft for the fraudulent sale of drugs in an overbilling scheme. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail, and his pharmacist’s license was suspended.

The embarrassing headlines come at a bad time for Hocking College, which faces an unrelated criminal investigation over possible spending violations on trips by college officials, including Mr. Holtel. —Paul Fain