A Northern Virginia man received suspended sentences Thursday from a second judge for obtaining fake prescriptions on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 2023.
Twenty-four-year-old Jorge Alejandro Manzano-Garcia, of Herndon, was linked to a scheme in which a Fairfax doctor wrote a massive number of prescriptions and sent people across the state to pick up the drugs. The unidentified doctor no longer holds a Virginia medical license.
Judge Lynwood Lewis of the Accomack Circuit Court sentenced Manzano-Garcia to five years in prison for two counts of illegally obtaining prescriptions for Schedule I or II drugs at H&H Pharmacy in Oak Hall in February 2023. The judge suspended all but three months of the terms, which the defendant had already served. Manzano-Garcia will be on probation for two years…