Shreveport Police Dept.

Date: Aug. 21, 2007

Phone: 318/673-6932 Fax: 318/673-6933

Contact: Kacee Hargrave, Public Information Officer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SPD Officer arrested today

Shreveport Police Department, with assistance from the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office, arrested an SPD officer today on four counts of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud.

Sgt. T.L. Morgan, a supervisor in the Uniformed Services Division, was arrested late this afternoon after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was booked into the Caddo Correctional Center, where he is being held without bond on the felony charges.

Shreveport narcotics officers received a complaint about a week ago that Morgan was fraudulently obtaining prescription medications. An investigation was initiated, which found probable cause for his arrest. The four counts involve incidents that all occurred in 2007.

Morgan, 39, has been with the Shreveport Police Department since May of 1991. He has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation, which is standard procedure in such cases.

Information can be left with crimestoppers at 673-7373 or by logging onto the crimestoppers website at www.crimestoppersshreveportcaddo.com.

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