Kettering Woman Sentenced for Role in Pill Ring

DAYTON – Amanda R. Pappert, 31, of Kettering, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess and distribute Oxycodone.

Carter M. Stewart, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, Rocky Nelson, Director of the Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission, Wendell Willcox, Director, Tactical Crime Suppression Unit, Anthony Mohat, Supervising Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General, Chicago Division, Kettering Police Chief Christopher Protsman, Centerville Police Chief Bruce Robertson and Germantown Police Chief Roy McGill, Jr. announced the sentence handed down today by U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Rose.

The Ohio Organized Crime Investigations Commission in Attorney General DeWine’s Office investigated the case.

According to court documents, Pappert became part of a conspiracy to fabricate, falsify and forge various Dayton based physicians’ prescriptions for Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Alprazolam. The group would fill the prescriptions at various retail pharmacies throughout the Greater Dayton area. Once obtained, the prescription drugs would thereafter be sold to various drug dealers and addicts in return for cash and illegal narcotics.

Pappert pleaded guilty on June 5 to one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute Oxycodone. She was charged by one-count bill of information on April 21. Pappert was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

Co-defendants in the conspiracy include: Christian P. Fannon, Brian A. Siler, Sandy Earnstean Bryson, Elaina Marie Morocho, Mandy Marie Ernestine McGhee, Sean Aaron Ring, Justin Michael Crouch and Candice Page Crouch.

U.S. Attorney Stewart commended the cooperative investigation by the task force agencies which include the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Inspector General – Investigations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), the Ohio Investigative Unit, and the police departments in Centerville, Kettering, West Carrollton, Moraine and Oakwood, and the Tactical Crime Suppression Unit. He also commended Assistant U.S. Attorney Dwight Keller, who prosecuted the case.