SENTENCING DAY Former Security Chief At UBB Mine Sentenced To Jail
Reported by: Kennie Bass
Videographer: John Tincher
Web Producer: Teresa Higginbotham
Reported: Feb. 29, 2012 2:33 PM EST
Updated: Feb. 29, 2012 2:42 PM EST
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Beckley
, West Virginia
Former Security Chief Hughie Elbert Stover was sentenced Wednesday, February 29, 2012 to three yeas in jail, two years supervised release and fined $20,000.
Stover was found guilty for lying to investigators and security-related documents to be destroyed at the Upper Big Branch mine.
Twenty-Nine miners were killed April of 2010 in the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in four decades.
The prosecutors wanted Stover to be sentenced to the maximum of 25 years.
United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia, Judge Irene Berger says the sentence that was imposed was proportionate for the crimes.
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Kennie Bass
