A Shreveport police officer is free on $5,184 bond after being booked into Caddo Correctional Center today on a charge of felony theft by fraud.
Officer Justin Matthew White, 27, also is on paid administrative leave from the Police Department, police Cpl. Bill Goodin said.
White is accused of falsely reporting his all-terrain vehicle as stolen to Blanchard police in June and collecting $7,012 from the insurance claim he filed, Cindy Chadwick, a Caddo sheriff’s office spokeswoman, said.
He and a friend, who is wanted by the sheriff’s office, traded the ATV to a Bossier City business for automotive work, according to Chadwick. White blew the ATV’s motor and could not afford to fix it.
“It was really just by accident this was discovered,” she said.
Bossier City police are working a similar case involving an ATV and were checking the ATV for their case Monday and it turned out to be the one that was allegedly stolen from White’s Blanchard property, Chadwick said.
BCPD contacted the Caddo sheriff’s office, and the obtained warrants for both White and his friend’s arrest on a charge of felony theft by fraud. The friend’s name was not release as he has not yet been arrested.
Shreveport police supervisors turned White over to the sheriff’s office Thursday after being notified the parish had a warrant for his arrest, Goodin said.
White was booked into Caddo Correctional at 4:48 p.m. today, according to booking records.
Police Chief Henry Whitehorn has relieved White of all duties pending an internal investigation. “I will not tolerate misconduct on the part of our officers,” the police chief said.
White has been employed by the Police Department for four years.
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