Federal prosecutors have charged three current or former police chiefs with accepting bribes in exchange for filing false police reports to help noncitizens seek special immigrant visas.
Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon and former Glenmora Police Chief Tebo Onishea — all of whom serve or served in Louisiana — allegedly accepted cash in exchange for making bogus police reports, allowing noncitizens to apply for U visas, according to a Wednesday press release by the Department of Justice (DOJ). U visas are special immigrant visas that certain noncitizens, including illegal migrants, can apply for if they are victims of crime in the United States.
The alleged conspiracy — which also involved Chandrakant “Lala” Patel, an Oakdale businessman, and Michael “Freck” Slaney, a marshal in Oakdale — lasted for nearly a decade, according to prosecutors. The defendants are accused of making up fake robberies in order to name migrants as victims.
“The indictment alleges that Patel, Doyle, Slaney, Dixon, Onishea, and others, authored, facilitated, produced and authenticated false police reports in several central Louisiana parishes,” the DOJ press release stated. “Each report listed several victims of purported armed robberies in the central Louisiana area, and the defendants produced false police reports so that the purported victims of the robberies could apply for U-Visas.”
Noncitizens seeking U visas would reach out to Patel, who would then allegedly contact the police chiefs and offer them payment in order to falsely write up police reports that named the migrants as victims of armed robberies that never actually took place, according to prosecutors.
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