UNSET, La. (AP) — A volunteer
police officer in south central Louisiana has been charged with stealing a bag
of prescription pills from a police department evidence room.
Sunset Police Chief Alexcie
Guillory Sr. tells The Daily World (http://bit.ly/1lTIxkG ) that 39-year-old
reserve officer Ronald Anthony Duplechain (DOO'-plih-shahn) Jr. of Port Barre
was arrested Sunday on a charge of malfeasance in office.
Guillory says his department
began investigating Saturday when someone told him that evidence was missing.
He assigned Assistant Chief Kevin Pugh to the case.
Pugh says the office's video
surveillance system shows Duplechain entering the police department on Friday
and removing an evidence bag containing pills that had been seized as part of a
traffic stop earlier in the day.
It was unclear if Duplechain
has an attorney.