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A West Virginia woman who pleaded guilty in August to illegally obtaining hundreds of Oxycodone pills in Maryland and West Virginia was sentenced Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to six months in the county detention center.
Kristyn Leigh Ours, 35, of Inwood, W.Va., pleaded guilty to 15 counts of obtaining a controlled-dangerous substance by fraud and two counts of obtaining a controlled-dangerous substance by altering a prescription.
Another 143 counts were dismissed as part of an August plea agreement.
Retired Circuit Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr. sentenced Ours to 10 years in prison, suspending all but six months in the county jail. She will be on supervised probation for three years after her release.
Defense attorney Jason Shoemaker told Long that Ours had complied with a judge’s presentence order that she be drug tested three times a week. All of her test results were negative, Shoemaker said.
Ours was employed for 12 years by a surgical practice in Frederick, Md. Officials there informed the Frederick County Narcotics Task Force in October 2016 that she was writing counterfeit prescriptions and getting them filled at pharmacies in Maryland and West Virginia, according to charging documents.
She had stolen prescription pads from her workplace, documents said.
In Washington County, Ours had 32 prescriptions for 1,253 pills filled at a Hagerstown-area Walmart, documents said.
She wrote some prescriptions to herself, but also used the names of family members and forged the signatures of doctors, documents said.
Ours told investigators she suffered several personal setbacks and began to “self-medicate” by taking pills left over from a prescription she received in 2012.
Shortly before being caught by her employer, she was taking as many as 60 pills a day, documents said.