Former Shreveport police lieutenant convicted of wire fraud

A former Shreveport police officer was sentenced Thursday, May 16, in federal court on one count of wire fraud.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jeffrey L. Peters, 55, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation and ordered to pay $13,084 in restitution.

On January 12, 2024, Peters pleaded guilty to crimes committed while serving as a lieutenant with the Shreveport Police Department.

While on the job, Peters was permitted to work overtime through the Community-Based Crime Reduction (CBCR) program, a grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that pays officers 1.5 times their normal hourly rate for overtime worked.

According to the law firm, between January 2020 and January 2021, Peters and his colleague James Cisco devised a plan to defraud Shreveport police by demanding overtime for hours not worked.

Peters and Cisco each completed and signed an overtime report stating that they had worked under the CBCR grant at a specific time and date. Peters, in his role as Cisco’s supervisor, certified that Cisco actually worked the dates and times listed in the overtime report.

Peters would also prepare and file an activity report falsely claiming that he and Cisco were conducting patrols in District 3, an area surrounding police headquarters. In those reports, Peters and Cisco were the only officers listed.

Neither Peters nor Cisco worked overtime for the police.

It was reported that Peters submitted false overtime and activity reports on over 50 dates, falsely claiming he had worked overtime when he had not. Peters received a total of $13,084.74 in the extension, to which he was not entitled.

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