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Subject: LPD Bugging Investigation: State Police Officially Turns Over
Report to D.A., Findings to be Submitted to Grand Jury
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May 30, 2006
LPD Bugging Investigation: State Police Officially Turns Over Report
to D.A., Findings to be Submitted to Grand Jury
There are new developments in the Lafayette police bugging investigation.
Police Chief Randy Hundley now has company. Like Chief Hundley, four
additional officers are now on paid administrative leave after being
highlighted as targets of a state police investigation.
The group is accused of using a bug to monitor conversations in a
police department secretary's office.
Lafayette Consolidated Government chief administrative officer
announced Tuesday night that Major Casey Fowler, Captain Michael
Lavergne, Sgt. Brian Butler and Cpl. Shannon Hundley are on leave.
TV 10 broke this story back in February.
A state police detective delivered the results of the investigation
to the district attorney's office around 3:45. The report included
several audio and video taped interviews with police officers and
members of consolidated government. As TV 10 first reported, the
allegations against the officers center on a bug allegedly placed
under Chief Hundley's secretary's desk. He says it does not include
information about wiretaps placed on phone lines.
D.A. Mike Harson says the alleged deal was a listening type device
placed under a desk that would hear or intercept the oral
communications and then transmit it to another location. He says
it's not a wiretap in the sense to where you actually go in and
interfere with the line itself.
Harson says he plans to send the case to a grand jury to avoid any
sign of politics.
Harson says he thinks it's the best way to handle this type of case
with the publicity it's gotten and the public's interest in knowing
about the actions of the police department to avoid an appearance of
political involvement. He says he would rather just get an impartial
body that will be able to hear the evidence and make a call.
The district attorney says it may take a few days to review all the
information in the state police report. He does say it shouldn't
take long for a grand jury to convene and take up the issue.
Harson says his intentions at this time are to turn the matter over
to a grand jury here in Lafayette. He says there are some grand
juries coming in the month of June. He says he will try his best to
have the matter put on one of the dockets within the next two to three weeks.
As we've previously reported, investigators believe the bug was
originally planted as part of an investigation into abuse of the
department's overtime policy.
But, as time went on, it was left in place as a means of determining
who was loyal to Chief Hundley.
The specific allegations include placing, monitoring and servicing
the bugging device.
If indicted, the officers face charges of illegal monitoring of oral
conversations and police malfeasance in office charges.
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