BATON ROUGE — A woman who was fired from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office in 2019 allegedly misrepresented herself as a current law enforcement officer to prematurely terminate her lease at a Baton Rouge apartment complex without paying a fine; she was arrested Friday.
According to EBRSO, 45-year-old LaTonya Claiborne sent a letter to Cobblestone Apartments on Essen Lane, where she had lived since January 2026.
Claiborne then allegedly asked the complex to release her from her lease because she needed to move for work. She then provided management with a letter dated April 19 that said her assignment with the sheriff’s office was changing and she needed to find housing “more suitable for her updated work requirements.”…