A former Springhill Fire Chief will serve time in a parish jail after being sentenced in Webster Parish District Court today on the charge of unauthorized use of an access card.
David Camp was sentenced to three years to the Webster Parish jail, with all but six months suspended. Upon release Camp has been ordered to complete 150 additional hours of community service and will be placed on three years active, supervised probation.
Camp pled guilty to the charge in late September, according to the Webster Parish Clerk of Court’s Office, after being arrested in April on charges of unauthorized use of an access card over $5,000 and malfeasance in office.
According to the Webster Parish District Attorney’s Office, Camp has already made full restitution.
The former District 11 fire chief resigned from the department in February, after allegations surfaced of illegal spending practices – using public funds for private use and unauthorized purchases. Roughly two months later Camp was ousted by the Webster Parish Police Jury from the parish’s E-911 board.
Camp’s criminal woes come on the heels of the arrests of now-former fire officials in the neighboring town of Cotton Valley – James Dennis Meshell and Adam Hurley, whose casing are pending in Webster Parish District Court.
The misuse of the parish’s money train of public funds does not stop there.
Earlier this month Bobby Glen Guin, former Webster Parish Coroner’s Office bookkeeper was sentenced to five years in parish jail, with all but one suspended, after he plead guilty to felony theft associated with embezzling nearly $100,000 of public funds.