These police chiefs made up crimes to help illegal aliens
The Justice Department has indicted police chiefs who accepted bribes to create bogus crime reports to help illegal aliens obtain visas.
Illegal immigrants who are victims of certain crimes can sometimes obtain a U-Visa in exchange for helping law enforcement catch the perpetrators. Since the program’s inception in 2000—which was ostensibly to help reduce crime—it has become rife with immigration fraud.
Now an immigration fraud ring involving several members of law enforcement has been indicted by a grand jury in the Western District of Louisiana, the DOJ announced on Wednesday. The five individuals indicted are Oakdale Police Chief Chad Doyle, Forest Hill Police Chief Glynn Dixon, Glenmora's former Police Chief Tebo Onishea, Oakdale’s Ward 5 Marshal Michael “Freck” Slaney, and businessman Chandrakant “Lala” Patel.
“The indictment alleges that Patel, Doyle, Slaney, Dixon, Onishea, and others, authored, facilitated, produced and authenticated false police reports in several central Louisiana parishes,” the DOJ said in a press release. “Each report listed several victims of purported armed robberies in the central Louisiana area, and the defendants produced false police reports so that the purported victims of the robberies could apply for U-Visas.”
A decade-long operation
According to the press release, Patel would contact the others on behalf of illegal aliens and offer bribes to create police reports naming the migrants as victims. A single police report could yield a $5,000 payday for the law enforcement officials. The operation ran for a decade.
“The indictment further alleges that from approximately September 27, 2023 until December 26, 2024, Doyle, Slaney, Dixon, and Onishea did knowingly submit false statements with respect to material facts in immigration applications by signing I-918B forms as certifying officials stating that individuals were cooperating victims of crimes, which statements the defendants knew to be false and that the individuals were never victims of the crimes alleged in the I-918B forms,” the DOJ stated.
The defendants have been charged with conspiracy, visa fraud, and mail fraud, with each facing up to 35 years in prison. Patel faces an additional 10 yeaers for a bribery charge.
