PHILADELPHIA — Jonathan Nyce, 73, of Collegeville, was convicted by a federal jury of wire fraud and the interstate shipment of misbranded animal drugs, United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced.
The charges arise from a years-long scheme to defraud pet owners of money by falsely claiming to sell canine cancer-curing drugs, Romero said in a press release.
Romero gave the following account of the case:
In February 2020, Nyce was charged by Indictment for this scheme, which he operated by creating several companies, including “Canine Care,” “ACGT,” and “CAGT,” through which he purported to develop drugs intended to treat cancer in dogs. Using various websites for these companies beginning in 2012, Nyce marketed these “cancer-curing” medications to desperate pet owners, using the drug names “Tumexal” and “Naturasone.”
The websites made numerous false and fraudulent claims regarding the safety and efficacy of these supposed drugs, including that “Tumexal is effective against a wide variety of cancers,” and, “[i]n fact, Tumexal will almost always restore a cancer-stricken dog’s appetite, spirit and energy!” As alleged, these drugs were nothing more than a collection of bulk ingredients from various sources, which Nyce blended together himself at a facility on Arcola Road in Collegeville.
Further, through email and telephone conversations, Nyce induced the owners of terminally ill dogs to pay him hundreds or thousands of dollars for these drugs by touting the...
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