BRISTOW, Va. -- A Bristow man was sentenced Friday to serve 3 years and five months in federal prison for his role in an illegal pain pill distribution ring in the Prince William County area.
Kashif Masood, 26, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to distribute oxycodone.
At a sentencing hearing at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Masood was also sentenced to three years of probation.
Prosecutors said Masood obtained forged prescriptions for oxycodone and had them filled them at pharmacies in Manassas Park, Prince William County and Fairfax County.
Prosecutors said the drug distribution ring operated throughout Northern Virginia.
In court documents, Masood admitted to giving the pills to another person who distributed them to customers.
The drug ring distributed more than 2,200 oxycodone pills in the area in the spring and summer of 2009, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors brought the case as part of the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force’s Operation Cotton Candy, which is focusing on illegal distribution of prescription drugs.
The task force is comprised of officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Department of Defense, Virginia State Police, Internal Revenue Service, and Buchanan, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Tazewell, and Warren Counties, and Manassas City, Virginia police departments.
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