A hearing was held Oct. 1 and Parks, 42, was placed in the Ingham County Jail until his sentencing.

Parks was sentenced in July by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge William Collette, who ordered him to pay restitution to MSU up to $116,773. At the time of sentencing, Parks indicated that part of that sum was paid, and he still owed about $12,000 to the university.

Parks’ attorney, Frederick Blackmond, could not be reached for comment Monday.

Parks originally was charged in January with four counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud. He was charged in April with four counts of using false pretenses to obtain $20,000 or more, Dunnings said.

Parks pleaded guilty to the first substance charge, and the other three were dismissed.

The former medical student was convicted with one count of using false pretenses, and was sentenced for that charge in July. He received 36 months probation.

Officials in the College of Osteopathic Medicine first dismissed Parks from the program when they learned he was forging prescriptions, said William Strampel, the college’s dean.

The embezzlement case was discovered during an internal audit after Parks had been dismissed.

“He was no longer an MSU student when the embezzlement charge came through,” Strampel said.

Parks reportedly stole money from the college’s emergency student loan fund, which offers students 90-day loans for emergency and personal situations.

Parks changed paperwork to receive more money from the university than was approved by advisers in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Strampel said.

“(He) basically figured out how to break the code and tell one person one thing and another person something else,” he said.

The emergency student loan fund was suspended.