Former inmate pleads guilty to conspiring to threaten witness
A former inmate has pleaded guilty to conspiring to threaten a prospective witness against a man who has been jailed on charges of identity theft and fraud in a scheme to fake his own death.
A former corrections officer for the Washington County Sheriff's Department in Potosi, Mo., pleaded guilty in US District Court in St. Louis, to one count of obstruction of justice, admitting that she intentionally misled law enforcement officials about her role in the assault of an inmate housed in the Washington County Jail, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.