Nevada Dr. Desai Led In Handcuffs To Mental Hospital


As previously ordered by the court after being found incompetent to stand trial, Dr. Dipak Desai has been placed in custody and taken to a psychiatric facility to determine if and how he can be rehabilitated back to competency.

From The Las Vegas Sun

Doctor At Center Of Hepatitis C Scare Taken Into Custody

Dipak Desai, the man who was at the center of the hepatitis C scare that swirled through Southern Nevada in 2007 and 2008, was taken into state custody Thursday morning.

Desai made a brief appearance in Clark County District Judge Jackie Glass’s courtroom with his attorneys, was placed into handcuffs and led off to eventually be taken to a state mental evaluation facility in Northern Nevada.

Glass ruled Feb. 8 that he was incompetent and ordered that he be treated in hopes he can be returned to competency to stand trial.
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