A Clallam County man was charged last week in federal court for attempting to promote mislabeled drugs as a prevention against COVID-19, according to federal prosecutors.

Richard Marschall, 67, allegedly called himself a health coach and promoted two drugs online, which when taken in combination as a “dynamic duo” he said could “stop” coronavirus.

Prosecutors said in a press release that an undercover agent spoke with Marschall over the phone and ordered the “dynamic duo” for $140.

When the drugs arrived, it was determined they were manufactured in Illinois and Texas and were included with documents that said they can “crush viral infections including those in the corona family, like in China Corona-19.”

One was a substance derived from garlic and another from larch trees, according to the Associated Press.

Marschall was previously convicted of distributing misbranded drugs in 2011 and 2017 after he sold HCG, a hormone produced in pregnant women, as a weight-loss supplement. The Washington Department of Health suspended Marschall’s credential as a naturopathic physician in 2013 and permanently revoked it in 2018.

“At a time when scientists are scrambling to identify COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, it is unconscionable and cruel to take people’s money for false hope and promises of a cure,” U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said in a press release. “This defendant knew better than to be peddling misbranded drugs. Fortunately, the community quickly notified law enforcement when they saw he had launched this scheme with a COVID-19 twist.”