CENTRAL — A Central police officer, who also works as an assistant warden at the Dixon Correctional Institute, turned himself into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Monday, Oct. 28th. Huey Haley is facing charges of theft and malfeasance in office, after allegedly falsifying multiple pay records he submitted to the City of Central, according to the Central Police Department.
Lt. Huey Haley resigned from the department on Oct. 20 after learning of the investigation, said the Central Police Dept.
An arrest warrant alleges Haley reported more than 300 hours to the city of Central he allegedly didn’t work, resulting in more than $7500 in overpayments to Haley.
The former Central officer is now facing charges of:
- Public payroll fraud (felony)
- Theft over $5,000 (felony)
- Malfeasance in office (felony)
- Filing or maintaining false public records (25 counts)
- Filing or maintaining false public records (one count)
“We have been shaken by violations of public trust by our most senior officer,” Central Police Roger Corcoran said in a press release. “Please know that Haley’s actions are in no way representative of the character and integrity of the hardworking men and women of the Central Police Department.”
According to the release, an administrative assistant noticed irregularities in Haley’s pay records, which prompted an audit of the former officer’s previous time records. That investigation revealed numerous instances of alleged wrongdoing by Haley.
An arrest warrant shows the time card falsifications took place between Oct. 2023 and Oct. 2024 with the abnormalities coming to light after a Sept. 2024 timesheet was submitted. That timesheet was examined by Corcoran’s secretary who noted it “reflected more hours than she believed he could have worked during the pay period: September 16, 2024, through September 29, 2024,” according to the affidavit.
Corcoran’s secretary estimated the timesheet may have been exaggerated by as much as 10 hours during those two weeks. Investigators then examined 25 different timesheets submitted by Haley, each representing a two-week period.
According to the affidavit, in 24 of the 25 timesheets, Haley reported 349 hours and 25 minutes more hours than he worked for payment, averaging approximately 14 hours of misreporting in every two-week pay period, resulting in approximately $7,640.47 to Haley over the 12-month period.
On five different occasions, Haley is also accused of submitting hours for payment from the Central Police Department, while simultaneously receiving payments for working for outside employers. The affidavit states that the practice is commonly referred to as “double dipping,” and alleges Haley received approximately 15 extra hours of pay stemming from those incidents.
Finally, after the investigation was ongoing, Corcoran ordered a new version of timesheets to be implemented requiring each employee to sign their name above a statement affirming the information provided on the timesheets is “true and accurate to the best of my knowledge.” The affidavit claims Haley altered his timesheet document by removing that statement and submitting it as his official timesheet on Oct. 13.
The affidavit states Haley was the only employee who altered the new timesheet record.
“While this is a dark day for us, we will preserve and move forward in a positive direction while we continue to serve our citizenry,” Corcoran wrote in a news release.
UWK reached out to Haley for a response to this report, but he has not returned the call as of this article.
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