http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20090206/ARTICLES/902060235/1211/NEWS01?Title=Area_news_in_brief
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HOUMA — State Police have yet to make a decision on whether to conduct an investigation of the Houma Police Department.
Last week, Terrebonne District Attorney Joe Waitz Jr. and Parish President Michel Claudet asked State Police to conduct the investigation.
Last week the District Attorney’s Office received complaints from a police lieutenant accusing Interim Chief Todd Duplantis of criminal conduct and another from a citizen who claims a police report was illegally leaked. SNIP
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090216/NEWS01/902160311
http://rustonleader.com/news.php?id=4936
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GRAMBLING — The drama within Grambling’s City Hall continues with the battle for governmental control heating up on two separate fronts.
When Grambling Police Chief Tommy Clark arrived at work Friday morning, a note had been slipped under his door informing him Mayor Martha Andrus had terminated him from his job.
A brief while later, investigators with the Louisiana State Police swept into Grambling with search warrants for four different locations involving a nearly yearlong ongoing probe into possible missing funds and a breach of records within city finances. SNIP
http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/2007/08/la_federal_gran.html
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MARKSVILLE -- Longtime Avoyelles Parish Sheriff Bill Belt has been indicted, along with his wife and sister, by a federal grand jury and charged with illegally pocketing profits from telephone services provided at the parish jails.
The indictments were handed down last week in Shreveport through the Alexandria division of the federal court but were sealed until Wednesday.
Belt and his wife, Tracy Bryant Belt, 37, both of Marksville, were charged with eight counts each of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Bill Belt's sister, Julie Ann Bernard, 50, also of Marksville, was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, making a false statement to the FBI and obstruction of justice, according to the Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney's Office.SNIP
http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090219/NEWS01/902190316
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Waterproof Mayor Bobby Higginbotham and Police Chief Miles Jenkins were arrested Wednesday morning on felony corruption charges.
Higginbotham faces 44 counts, including mulitple charges of malfeasance, felony theft, deducting payroll, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and theft.
Jenkins faces three counts of malfeasance. SNIP
Sorry for the long (and slightly off topic) post but a little Googling can turn up a lot. Just an FYI into the background perspective of small town/rural Louisiana politics. Lately there also seems to have been a rash of LE excessive force in
some cases. Complex issues to say the least.
Cases like these demonstrate why small town/rural LA LE and politicians might seem <cough, cough>
reluctant to ask for and/or accept help from outside souces such as the feds, AMW, etc.
All JMOOC
ETA: Okay I finally got the links straightened out. Sorry.