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Kentucky Pharmacy Manager Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison

A one-time pharmacy manager has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for her role in an illegal prescription pill scheme.

U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar on Tuesday handed down the punishment for 60-year-old Beverly Lockhart, who worked at multiple pharmacies in Pikeville. A jury convicted Lockhart earlier this year of conspiring with multiple co-defendants of illegally dispensing prescription drugs from June 2006 through July 2011.

Lockhart's co-defendants included two doctors, the corporation that owns the pharmacy where Lockhart worked, another pharmacy employee and dealers who obtained their pills from the pharmacies where Lockhart worked.

All 11 defendants have been sentenced.