He was a cop. Then he became ‘Founding father’ of internet pill mills.

Attorneys now call him the “founding father” of illegal internet pharmacies, but first, Juan Gallinal was a Pembroke Pines police officer.The 49-year-old man pleaded guilty in 2015 to turning a small brick-and-mortar drugstore into a sprawling national online pharmacy that “spread addiction throughout the country,” U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes wrote in a release. He was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday.