Wife of embattled Louisiana police chief charged in immigration visa fraud scheme also arrested
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – In a statement on Thursday, a Louisiana police chief’s wife was arrested at the beginning of this week.
Alison Doyle, a former employee of the city of Küçük Oakdale, was accused of ill -treatment twice in the office. The state police claim that Doyle was a central figure in the visa fraud operation of the authorities.
It is not clear whether Doyle’s crime is related to the fraud of the immigrant visa of the region. However, both Doyle’s husband and Patel, this week, were among the five people arrested on a land that lasted about ten years in a plot of $ 5,000 in exchange for the preparation of wrong police reports, which were not victims of armed robbery for small town police chiefs.
Fabrication police reports would be sold to immigrants who would use to apply for a special visa program that could give a way to US citizenship for some crime victims and their families.
As a result of the comprehensive federal investigation, Patel and Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon, former Glenmora Police Chief Tebo Onishea and Michael “Freck” Slaney were arrested in Oakdale.
On Thursday, Doyle and Slaney were appointed to defense lawyers who did not return to the messages looking for comments from Associated Press. Patel said that he had held a lawyer to the court officials, but he was not clear from the court records he would represent.
When asked about the scope of fraud on Wednesday, US lawyer Alexander Van Hook said that there was “hundreds of names için especially for the approved visa.
If there is something that the immigrants accused of receiving fraudulent visas will be, it remains unclear what will happen. The prosecutors refused to say that they would be able to encounter accusations, and the US Department of Internal Security said only the agency’s agency is determined to “protect the integrity of the immigration system from abuse and keep those who exploit it responsible.”
Special visas, called the U visa, have been put aside for people who are victims of certain crimes and who assisted government officials in investigating or prosecution of law enforcement or crime activities ”based on the statement of the program published by US citizenship and immigration services.
Approximately 10,000 people received such visa in the 12 -month period, which ended on 30 September 2022, the last period in which the Interior Security Department published.
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Mustian reported from New York.
