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8th District Officer Hauls Financial Records To Grand Jury Inquiry
POSTED: 3:20 p.m. CDT April 23, 2004
UPDATED: 3:42 p.m. CDT April 23, 2004
Story by The New Orleans Channel
NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans police officer was called Friday to appear before a federal grand jury investigating alleged payoffs to police for protection of an alleged gambling and drug operation in the French Quarter.
Officer Charles "Chuck" Loescher, the 8th District's crime prevention officer, was ordered to produce financial records, according to police sources. Loescher carried a large box into the courthouse Friday.
Loescher is one of three 8th District officers who have been reassigned and are under investigation for criminal wrongdoing in connection with the operation at 335 Bourbon St.
The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that Terrence "Scotty" Border, 62, paid 8th District officers approximately $1,500 a week to protect the alleged gambling operation run by Border and owned by Mitch Schwartz, 92.
Border is a career criminal with a lengthy list of felony convictions and a rap sheet dating back 45 years, records show.
While allegedly paying off police for protection, Border was living in a house on Jupiter Street in Chalmette. According to property records, Loescher was Border's landlord.