A Boone County doctor who pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal distribution of diet pills will spend a year and a day in prison.

Brian J. McDevitt was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Charleston. The 46-year-old Turtle Creek resident also must pay a $60,000 fine.

McDevitt had pleaded guilty in January to conspiring to allow others to use his federal registration number to distribute Phentermine.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says McDevitt practiced in Varney, Huntington and Chapmanville.

A stipulation of facts entered with McDevitt's plea says three employees at the Varney clinic used McDevitt's federal registration number on more than 800 occasions to illegally distribute the pills.

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