Posted on 02/21/2009 1:07:51 PM PST by Ken H
Waterproof, Louisiana mayor and police chief arrested for corruption. The pair received federal grants to create speed traps.
The mayor and police chief of a federally funded Louisiana speed trap town were arrested Wednesday on felony corruption charges. A Tensas Parish Grand Jury indicted Waterproof Mayor Bobby Higginbotham for felony theft, malfeasance in office, payroll fraud and using public funds for personal use.
Waterproof Police Chief Miles Jenkins faces three felony counts for receiving bonuses for meeting traffic ticket quotas and altering traffic citations. The activities of both officials were fueled by federal taxpayer dollars.
In 2007, Higginbotham received $37,500 from the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development's Community Facilities Program for the purchase of two police cars fully equipped with the latest speed detection equipment.
Higginbotham ordered Miles to use these vehicles to prey on State Highway 65 travelers as the speed limit dropped without warning to 45 MPH within the town limits.
"They have the nicest police cars in Louisiana," one commenter on the National Motorists Association Speed Trap Exchange website observed. "However they are the most unprofessionally dressed cops I've ever seen."
Even before the arrival of the new cruisers, Waterproof earned 37 percent of its budget from speeding tickets, according to a 2007 report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor. Higginbotham and Jenkins are out on bond awaiting trial. Louisiana State Police officials say the investigation into their activities is ongoing.
Please tell me that these two idiots were Democrats.
I always knew the Department of Agriculture wasted tons of money, but never thought that is would be on speed traps.
The Federal Apparatus is out of control.
They had to be dem(wits) because no party affiliation is mentioned. LOL!
So their gonna be made to refund all the money to the speeder and clear their record? Fat Tuesday chance of that.
The mayor of Waterproof, Bobby Higginbotham, an African American, has twice run against his fellow Democrat, Sheriff Rickey A. Jones, who is white. On July 24, 2007, Jones arrested Higginbotham on counts of impersonating a police officer, criminal trespass, and felony criminal damage to property. Higginbotham claimed that Jones arrested him as a way to keep Higginbotham from running for sheriff again in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary. Jones said that he incurred $7,500 in legal fees before he ever took office as sheriff because Higginbotham sued him on grounds that the election had been "rigged."[3] In the 2007 primary, Jones defeated Higgingotham, 2,188 (77.6 percent) to 631 votes (22.4 percent)[4]
Here is the Link
It was completely out of control before the marxists took complete power.
In the last 30 days it has gone from out of control to criminal.
Wow, how messed up is that little town?
in the 1950’s the Dept of Agriculture was fully infested with communists. Not just USSR agents but full blown effete elite communists.
Unfortunately, Louisiana is crawling with speed traps.
On Feb. 12, Mayor Bobby Higginbotham was indicted on 44 counts including 18 counts of malfeasance in office, 21 counts of felony theft, one count of unauthorized use of a moveable and four counts of public salary deduction.
Waterproof Police Chief Miles Jenkins was indicted on three felony counts, including receiving bonuses for meeting traffic ticket quotas and altering traffic citations.
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/feb/21/waterproof-mayor-police-chief-arrested/
I have fortunately been able to avoid them over the years. Thank God.
WTH? Must be a local term.
AHA! Obviously the result of raaaaaacism on the grand jury! Everybody knows that democrats never break the law.
thanks for the info. Am I surprised, of course I am, the Democrats are such honest, upstanding, caring and compassionate people. (EEWW! making myself sick . . . must stop) LOL
Is it still too soon to shoot the bastards?
Black mayor, White sheriff, gotta be Jungle Love, therefore....
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