FAYETTEVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - A former federal corrections officer has been sentenced on a drug charge to up to 15 years in prison.
Media outlets report that James Butcher of Fayetteville received a one-to-15-year sentence Monday in Fayette County Circuit Court. Judge Paul Blake Jr. also ordered Butcher to pay a $5,000 fine.
Butcher had pleaded guilty in January to a felony charge of delivery of a controlled substance.
He was employed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley at the time of the offense. He was arrested in August 2013.
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