A southern West Virginia ambulance business owner was sentenced to prison this week in a federal tax crimes case. Christopher J. Smyth of Pineville was sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for not paying taxes withheld from employees’ wages at an ambulance service he operated and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to collect those taxes, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia. Smyth was also ordered to pay $4.6 million in restitution. Smyth operated Stat EMS LLC in Pineville from 2012-17.