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• • <br /> Docket No. 2007-489 <br /> Page 5 of 7 <br /> a vehicle from a suspect during Mr. Gary's questioning of said suspect in an ongoing <br /> criminal investigation. Mr. Gary sold the vehicle at a later date for a substantial profit. <br /> Section 1115B of the Code prohibited Mr. Gary from negotiating and accepting a thing of <br /> economic value from a person in his agency's custody, which is the Jefferson Davis Parish <br /> Sheriff's Office, or from a person that has substantial economic interest that could be <br /> affected by the performance or nonperformance of his duties as the Chief Criminal <br /> Investigator with the Sheriff's office. Section 1116A of the Code prohibited Mr. Gary from <br /> using the authority or his office or position as an employee of the Sheriff's Office to obtain <br /> things of economic value for himself. The negotiation of a price and terms to purchase a <br /> vehicle, which he subsequently sold for a substantial profit, from a suspect upon her release <br /> from custody constitutes a thing of economic value. <br /> The Board is authorized to impose penalties up to $10,000 per violation on finding <br /> that a violation of the Code has occurred. In this particular situation,given the facts outlined <br /> above, it is the conclusion of the Board that a penalty of$10,000.00 be imposed on Warren <br /> Gary for the above-referenced violation of Sections 1115B and 1116A of the Code. <br />