ST. LOUIS (KTRS) The so-called King of Viagra has been sentenced In federal court in St. Louis. 57-year-old George Patino of Houston has been sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for smuggling Korean human growth hormone drugs to local pro wrestlers. Patino is also ordered to pay a 95-thousand dollar fine for his part in the drug smuggling operation. Court documents say from April 2014 through June 2015, Patino sent numerous packages of HGH to a St. Louis doctor and area patients.

According to the London Daily Mail from 2008, Patino was sentenced to prison in England along with other members of a ring that smuggled copies of Viagra from illegal factories in China, Pakistan and Asia.

A local doctor, Dr. Michael “Ted” Mimlitz, previously pled guilty in this same investigation.