Louisiana sheriff's deputy arrested for time and attendance fraud
A St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, sheriff's deputy was recently arrested for fraudulently making overtime employee attendance claims and issuing false seatbelt citations to motorists, according to The Times-Picayune.
William Marciante Jr. is believed to have chosen his 21 victims as they drove past. Videos taken by the dashboard camera in his patrol vehicle show he never stopped them. Despite this, he wrote them up for violating seatbelt laws, forged signatures on the citations, and then claimed overtime pay from a Louisiana Highway Safety Administration grant.
According to Pat Yoes, a captain with the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office, timeclock records indicate that Marciante was not working during the times the citations were issued.
St. Charles Sheriff Greg Champagne made an example of the arrest.
"We have checks and balances in place," he said, as quoted by the news source. "Once we discovered discrepancies, we immediately investigated and took swift actions."
A similar overtime scheme was exposed in New Orleans earlier this year. Police officer Glenn Gross was found to have written a total of 215 tickets to fictitious motorists over a three-month period, according to a separate article by the news source. Gross was charged with 215 counts of injuring public records and one count of malfeasance in office.
William Marciante Jr. is believed to have chosen his 21 victims as they drove past. Videos taken by the dashboard camera in his patrol vehicle show he never stopped them. Despite this, he wrote them up for violating seatbelt laws, forged signatures on the citations, and then claimed overtime pay from a Louisiana Highway Safety Administration grant.
According to Pat Yoes, a captain with the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office, timeclock records indicate that Marciante was not working during the times the citations were issued.
St. Charles Sheriff Greg Champagne made an example of the arrest.
"We have checks and balances in place," he said, as quoted by the news source. "Once we discovered discrepancies, we immediately investigated and took swift actions."
A similar overtime scheme was exposed in New Orleans earlier this year. Police officer Glenn Gross was found to have written a total of 215 tickets to fictitious motorists over a three-month period, according to a separate article by the news source. Gross was charged with 215 counts of injuring public records and one count of malfeasance in office.
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