Huber teacher sentenced for role in pill mill

Huber Heights teacher Amanda R. Pappert, 31, was sentenced on Monday to 18 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release for one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute Oxycodone. Pappert also was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

Investigators alleged that eight people procured dozens of forged painkiller prescriptions, filled them at several area pharmacies and sold the pills to drug dealers and users in exchange for cash and illegal narcotics from at least Sept. 1 to Nov. 25, 2014, the day Pappert and her boyfriend were arrested.

Pappert, of Kettering, was part of a conspiracy to fabricate, falsify and forge various Dayton based physicians’ prescriptions for Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Alprazolam, according to court documents. Pappert has been employed as a science teacher at Valley Forge Elementary School.

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.

A federal complaint alleged that Fannon told an informant that he could produce counterfeit paper prescriptions and that Pappert assisted by providing paper and helping Fannon draft and print the prescriptions at their residences and a public library.

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