BECKLEY, W.Va. — A former prison employee and physician’s assistant was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for witness tampering.
Scotty Rose, 42, of Beaver, worked in the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley as a physician’s assistant.
In Feb. 2013, Rose told a prisoner that another inmate was wearing a recording device and working for the FBI as an informant.
The informant Rose identified, was in fact working with the FBI on a large scale methamphetamine trafficking investigation and wearing a recording device as part of that investigation.
Rose leaking the information led to the informant’s removal from the prison for his own safety, as he was at risk of retaliation by other prisoners.
The FBI investigated the leak of information and determined that Rose was the source of the leak.