MANY, La. – The man accused of defrauding the Sabine Parish School Board out of more than $250,000 in 2024 has been arrested.
Wiley M. Howell, 58, of Clearwater, Fla., was arrested in Florida. He’s been extradited to Sabine Parish, where he’s held on two counts of theft by fraud over $25,000 (felony), six counts of illegal transmission of monetary funds and two counts of money laundering.
Louisiana Bureau of Investigations agents assisted the Sabine Parish School Board after learning it was a victim of a business email compromise that happened when a School Board employee was allegedly persuaded to send a payment of $251,972 to an out-of-state bank…