A Culpeper dentist will spend 28 months in a federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to illegally distribute oxycodone.

Earlier this month in Alexandria, U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia also sentenced Dr. William J. King to three years of supervised release, fined him $20,000 and ordered him to forfeit $150,000 for his involvement in wrongfully prescribing the painkillers.

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