Former WBRSO employee pleads guilty to theft of over $150K

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A former West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office employee plead guilty to stealing money from the department on Thursday, June 1.

According to the United States Attorney’s Office, Nicole Miller, 44, of Baton Rouge, La., plead guilty to a Bill of Information charging her with Federal Program Theft.

The document stated from July 2018 to September 2022, while employed at the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, Miller stole cash paid for traffic tickets and hid the thefts by recording fraudulent journal entries in the Sheriff’s Office accounting system.

Miller reportedly embezzled, stole, and otherwise without authority, knowingly converted to her own use more than $150,000 in official funds.

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