The U.S. Attorney’s Office announces a 62-count indictment against five people, including four law enforcement officers, in connection with a visa fraud scheme. The indicted officers are Oakdale Police Chief Chad Boyle; Michael Slaney of the Ward 5 Marshal’s Office in Oakdale, Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon and Former Glenmora Police Chief Tebo Onishea. The fifth suspect is businessman Chandrakant Patel. Alex (“Alec”) Van Hook, the acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, says this involves U-Visas, which foreign nationals who are victims of or are witnesses to crimes can obtain to remain in the country during the investigation.
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The indictment says Patel paid the officers five-thousand dollars for each foreign national placed on the report, in an effort to keep them and their family members in the United States.
South Louisiana is bracing for rain – and a lot of it. While a current disturbance in the gulf is not expected to grow into a tropical storm, it is expected to hover over the area for quite some time. So LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says while wind won’t be a factor, rainfall certainly will be.
LSU faces Alabama in Tuscaloosa November 8th, as they try to snap a two-game losing streak to the Crimson Tide. Alabama went 9-and-4 in their first season under Head Coach Kalen DeBoer and missed the College Football Playoff. DeBoer says that team last season fell short of the Alabama standard.