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Woman to Appear in Court for Fraudulent Oxycodone Purchases

A Manassas woman arrested in February for buying Oxycodone with a fake prescription will appear in Prince William County District Court Monday.

A Manassas woman previously sentenced to three months in prison for using forged prescriptions to buy Oxycodone will appear in Prince William County District Court Monday for separate charges from the same alleged incidents.

Jennifer Leigh Edwards, 32, was initially arrested by Prince William County Police Feb. 22 on felony charges of obtaining drugs by fraudulent means (first offense), misdemeanor prescription fraud and misdemeanor possession of marijuana (second offense), according to district court records.

“She admitted that she knew the prescription was fake,” Prince William County police officer Jesse K. Hempen said in the arrest warrant.

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Edwards was arrested by the FBI on Feb. 22 and was charged with a federal felony, fraudulent possession of Schedule II controlled substance, Oxycodone.

In an affidavit for the warrant, FBI Special Agent Shane Dana said Edwards had purchased Roxicodone—a variant of Oxycodone—at pharmacies in Leesburg, Manassas, Haymarket and Vienna with forged prescriptions in 2010.

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“I reviewed Sgt. Farhan’s report, which stated he and Ofc. Burchfield responded to the [Vienna] pharmacy and waited in line behind EDWARDS,” Dana said in the affidavit. “They observed her pay and sign for a prescription that the pharmacy had confirmed was forged.”

Edwards waived her right to preliminary hearing on Feb. 24 and on Mar. 17 signed a plea agreement where she confessed to using forged prescriptions to obtain Oxycodone from the four pharmacies.

She was sentenced to three months in prison (including approximately two months already served since her arrest Feb. 22) and one year of probation following prison on Apr. 29 by United States District Judge James C. Cacheris.

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