CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia doctor has been indicted on federal charges of illegally distributing anti-anxiety medicine.

Dr. Brian McDevitt, who serves as medical director of the Chapmanville Medical Center in Logan County, has been charged with three counts of unlawfully distributing a controlled substance. The indictment alleges he distributed Klonopin without a legitimate medical purpose on three occasions last year.

Each of the charges carries a potential sentence of up to five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. In addition, prosecutors are asking for Dr. McDevitt to forfeit his medical license and the property housing Chapmanville Medical Center, if he is convicted.

This is not McDevitt’s first brush with the law. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to allowing others to use his DEA registration number to distribute diet pills on more than 800 occasions. He was sentenced to a year and a day in that case.

McDevitt is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on the new charges June 20.