A California man is scheduled to appear in court in a few weeks after police alleged he gave cancer patients bogus treatments and tricked them out of thousands of dollars. His cancer-stricken victims often turned to him as a last resort, believing that he could cure their aliments with special vaccines.
But the opposite happened. Investigators contend that Vincent Gammill posed as a chemist and gave unsuspecting patients an ineffective, and sometimes dangerous, mix of the medications — including empty capsules, powders, and vials of liquid. A search of his home yielded laboratory equipment, corrosive liquids, and more than 25,000 prescription tablets – including morphine, Ambien, steroids, and Mexican and Russian drugs.