A New Orleans Police Department sergeant was terminated Thursday on multiple counts of payroll violations and submitting inaccurate reports, NOPD officials confirmed.
Henry Burke, 58, had been suspended without pay since his February arrest by NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau on four counts of public payroll fraud and six counts of injuring public records.
After the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute, the case was referred to another jurisdiction, NOPD Director of Communications Officer Reese Harper said. Court records showed state attorneys also refused charges against Burke…