Palm Beach Corrections Officer Accused Of Witness Tampering

WEST PALM BEACH (CBS4) - A West Palm Beach corrections officer is accused of trying to tamper with a witness in an attempted murder case.

Last October Latrishia Mone Laws, 22, is accused of meeting with the victim of a shooting to try to convince him to testify that he had identified the wrong person as the man who shot him.

The Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office said the victim had identified 23-year-old Charles Coney, with whom Laws has a child. Prosecutors said Laws reportedly offered to pay the victim $500 to sign a letter that the man who shot him was not Coney.

Coney is being held the Palm Beach County jail after being charged with a June 1st shooting in Belle Glade.

Laws was an officer at the Glades Correctional Institution. She was being held Saturday on $100,000 bond. Jail records did not show whether she had an attorney.

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