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State Trooper Was Also Bookie

LOUISIANA – As reported by the Louisiana Time Picayune: "A Louisiana state trooper has been booked with money laundering and malfeasance in office, accused of running a bookmaking operation out of his Meraux home and the Metairie office where he worked as a member of a multiagency drug task force, officials said.

"A Louisiana state trooper has been booked with money laundering and malfeasance in office, accused of running a bookmaking operation out of his Meraux home and the Metairie office where he worked as a member of a multiagency drug task force, officials said.

"Trooper Warren Ayo Jr., a 13-year veteran, was booked Monday in both St. Bernard and Jefferson Parish on identical charges of malfeasance in office, money laundering and gambling by computer, State Police Spokesman Lt. Lawrence McLeary said.

"Ayo, 36, of 2112 Aramis Drive, was booked with an additional charge of payroll fraud in Jefferson because he allegedly took bets on various sporting events while at work in the headquarters of the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Unit, McLeary said…"

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