Drexel Hill doctor arrested in sex-drug case

A Delaware County doctor has been arrested and has surrendered his medical license on accusations that he traded narcotics prescriptions for sex.

Samuel L. Krakow, 34, of Drexel Hill, was arrested Friday after allegedly handing an undercover police officer an Oxycontin prescription in the parking lot of a drugstore in Elkins Park.

Prosecutors allege that Krakow "engaged in lewd and sexual communications" with the officer while offering to trade prescription narcotics for sex, including sending an explicit picture of himself via cell phone.

Krakow was arrested after he attempted to conclude a deal in which he would trade a prescription for 28 Oxycontin pills to watch, then join, a sex act between the male undercover officer and a woman, Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said in a statement.

Krakow was arraigned Friday and posted a $25,000 bond Saturday, records show. He is due in court Friday for a preliminary hearing. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Ferman said that after he was arrested, Krakow said he had posted 20 advertisements on the online site Craigslist asking for sex in exchange for prescription drugs.

Krakow voluntarily gave up his medical license, Ferman said. Records indicate that he was a family physician in Springfield and had no prior history of professional discipline.