SCRANTON, Pennsylvania – In a shocking case of corruption, Louis Elmy, a 53-year-old former employee of the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for extortion and gun charges.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Elmy pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and extortion in July 2016. While acting in his official capacity as the work release counselor at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, Elmy extorted money and other items of value from work release inmates in exchange for affording them special privileges and unauthorized furloughs.
Between November 2013 and February 2016, Elmy created court orders and then physically cut and pasted a Luzerne County Judge’s signature from an older order onto the fraudulent order, and then photocopied the document in order to have a finished product for the file.
The drug trafficking crime involves the possession of and intent to distribute crack cocaine while in possession of a Hi-Point .380 caliber handgun.
On March 23, 2017, United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Elmy to 72 months imprisonment on firearms and extortion charges.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Mannion also ordered that Elmy be supervised by a probation officer for two years following his release from prison.
The case was investigated by the Scranton Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Olshefski prosecuted the case.
This case was brought as part of the Violent Crime Reduction Partnership (“VCRP”), a district wide initiative to combat the spread of violent crime in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
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Key Facts
- State: Pennsylvania
- Category: Public Corruption|Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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