A former New York State Police trooper has resigned and is barred from serving as a police or peace officer after admitting she leaked confidential information that compromised a multi-agency narcotics investigation.
Rosalia Flower, 35, of Lancaster pleaded guilty July 20 to attempted tampering with physical evidence, a misdemeanor, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.
Flower was assigned to monitor wiretaps during an Organized Crime Task Force investigation. Authorities said she used her personal cellphone July 2, 2025, to photograph confidential information and sent at least one image to a friend.
The photograph later reached targets of the investigation, alerting them that they were under surveillance and forcing part of the operation to shut down, according to the attorney general’s office.
Investigators discovered the leak after intercepting a July 10, 2025, text from a target’s phone. Flower initially denied taking the picture and blamed others involved in surveillance, then admitted during a second interview that September that she took it. She also acknowledged deleting other photographs after her first interview.
The broader investigation resulted Aug. 20 in 17 people being charged with 117 crimes tied to alleged cocaine, heroin and fentanyl trafficking in Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Onondaga counties and Puerto Rico.
Flower was originally charged with felony evidence tampering before pleading guilty to the misdemeanor. Her immediate resignation was a condition of the plea.
The attorney general’s office and State Police Special Investigative Unit and Computer Crimes Unit conducted the leak investigation.
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