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OR-W mayor charged with abuse of office
By Ken Fountain
Baytown Sun Published September 13, 2006 Old River-Winfree mayor Joe Landry has been charged with one count of abuse of official capacity stemming from allegations he caused city funds to be used to buy a personal computer for his daughter.
Landry, 62, has been mayor of the small West Chambers County township for most of the past decade. When the allegations were first made public during a contentious City Council meeting in July, he adamantly denied doing anything improper and refused to resign.
In a probable cause affidavit filed in the Chambers County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace court last week, Sheriff’s Office investigator Rod Yarbrough wrote that Landry “intentionally and knowingly” defrauded the city when he had former city secretary Jackie Franklin order a Dell computer on the city’s account for his adult daughter, Stephanie Carrier, who was not a city employee.
According to the affidavit, Landry told Yarbrough when the computer arrived at the city offices, he took it to his daughter’s home.
Landry was charged with one count of abuse of official capacity, a Class A misdemeanor. According to Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive, the charge carries a range of punishment of up to one year in county jail and a fine up of to $4,000.
LaRive said Landry was arrested and went before Justice of the Peace Kenneth Epperson. He was released on a personal recognizance bond.
Landry presided over Monday’s City Council meeting.
Efforts to contact Landry for this story were unsuccessful.
Baytown Sun Published September 13, 2006 Old River-Winfree mayor Joe Landry has been charged with one count of abuse of official capacity stemming from allegations he caused city funds to be used to buy a personal computer for his daughter.
Landry, 62, has been mayor of the small West Chambers County township for most of the past decade. When the allegations were first made public during a contentious City Council meeting in July, he adamantly denied doing anything improper and refused to resign.
In a probable cause affidavit filed in the Chambers County Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace court last week, Sheriff’s Office investigator Rod Yarbrough wrote that Landry “intentionally and knowingly” defrauded the city when he had former city secretary Jackie Franklin order a Dell computer on the city’s account for his adult daughter, Stephanie Carrier, who was not a city employee.
According to the affidavit, Landry told Yarbrough when the computer arrived at the city offices, he took it to his daughter’s home.
Landry was charged with one count of abuse of official capacity, a Class A misdemeanor. According to Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive, the charge carries a range of punishment of up to one year in county jail and a fine up of to $4,000.
LaRive said Landry was arrested and went before Justice of the Peace Kenneth Epperson. He was released on a personal recognizance bond.
Landry presided over Monday’s City Council meeting.
Efforts to contact Landry for this story were unsuccessful.