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Police arrest 1 of 2 women suspected of selling prescription drugs in Westmoreland County

JEANETTE, Pa. — Jeanette police arrested one of two women who are accused of distributing and selling prescription drugs over a 15-month period.

Police arrested Shauna Millslagle, who they say forged the doctor’s signature of family doctor’s office she worked at on blank prescriptions.%

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Officials said, she was working with Angela Henry, who has yet to be arrested. Police have filed charges against Henry, but are waiting for her to turn herself in.%

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Millslagle and Henry are responsible for distributing and selling more than 8,570 pills of Adderall, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and Xanax, police said. They also said the two were responsible for 81 fraudulent prescriptions over the past 15 months at seven pharmacies in the area.

Officials said the two women’s motivation behind the drug ring was simply to make extra money. Channel 11 is told the women were pulling in $2,000 to $3,000 a month.

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