Former MPD officer sentenced for false certification of documents

By: ELIZABETH
WEST
Managing Editor

A former Mamou Police Officer was sentenced recently for false certification of arrest documents.
Last week Christopher Ryan Lemaire appeared before Judge Gary Ortego and pled no contest to the crime he has been accused of committing back in April of 2016. A no contest plea simply means that the defendant does not actually admit guilt, however he is still convicted and sentenced.
According to an Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office press release issued around the time of the incident, former Mamou Police Chief Allen Noel contacted the EPSO Investigations Division requesting assistance with the misconduct of an MPD officer.
The release stated that, Noel informed investigators that during a routine traffic stop performed by Lemaire on April 1, 2016, the former officer “received a verbal consent from the driver to search the vehicle.”
During the search, “Lemaire located an ounce of Marijuana and a bong pipe.”
The release went on to state that “Lemaire confiscated the drug and paraphernalia,” and “then discarded the evidence prematurely, without authorization before processing it as evidence.”
For the crime of false certification of arrest documents, Lemaire was sentenced to six months in the parish jail with six months suspended, and one year of active supervised probation.