By Michelle Hunter
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
NEW ORLEANS — A former Jefferson Parish corrections officer pleaded guilty to stealing $80,000 through payroll fraud, according to Jefferson Parish court records.
Curtis Lumar, 44, of New Orleans, entered the plea Feb. 10 before Judge Donald Rowan Jr. of the 24th Judicial District Court. Rowan sentenced Lumar to 30 months in prison, court records said.
Lumar worked at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. He’d been with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office for about nine years when he was arrested in May 2024.
Investigators accused Lumar of falsifying his timesheets, recording about 2,000 hours of regular and overtime pay that he did not work between January 2023 and May 2024.
Working overtime at the jail wasn’t unusual. The Sheriff’s Office made such shifts mandatory in 2021 because of staffing shortages.
The shifts are now voluntary, according to department officials. But the “excessive” amount of overtime that Lumar reported drew the attention of Sheriff’s Office officials who opened an investigation, authorities said.
Lumar faced a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and $50,000 in fines, court records said.
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