Former Terrebonne Sheriff’s Officer Pleads Guilty to Theft of Federal Funds

Houma, Louisiana, April 12, 2016 – Darryl B. Stewart, a 49-year-old former Terrebonne Sheriff’s Office officer, has pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government funds.

According to court records, Stewart was the Narcotics Unit Supervisor for the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office (TPSO) during a time period when the TPSO applied for and received two separate federal grants from the federal government. The two grants were for personnel overtime and equipment to support a Multi-Jurisdictional Narcotics Task Force.

Between 2009 and 2012, Stewart claimed and approved his own overtime from the two grants. The Federal Bureau of Investigation began to look into the billing and discovered through documents and interviews that Stewart occasionally claimed overtime for the two federal grants at the same time that he was working private security details. There were other instances where Stewart claimed federal overtime hours from the grants but he did not actually participate in the narcotics enforcement work.

The amount that was improperly billed totals $15,925.

Stewart, who resigned from the TPSO on or about April 12, 2016, faces a sentence of up to ten (10) years in prison, up to $250,000 in fines, and up to three (3) years of supervised release.

U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle has set sentencing on September 7, 2016.

U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its handling of the matter.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward J. Rivera is in charge of the prosecution.

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