UPDATE: A Lafayette School Board member who was cited last week for shoplifting at a Carencro grocery store is facting more shoplifting accusations.
Chad Desormeaux, the Lafayette Parish School Board Member representing District 2 was cited for shoplifting and resigned last week.
The store where that alleged incident took place pulled its records of his debit card, and then reviewed surveillance footage of his other trips there, Carencro Police say. They found additional instances in which he allegedly stole items, and the total added up to more than $1,000 but less than $5,000. He's accused of felony theft in that case.
Additionally, another store in Carencro notified CPD that Desormeaux was a suspect in a theft there. That was a misdemeanor theft.
That means he's now facing two misdemeanor theft accusations and one felony theft accusation.
Records a LPCC show Desormeaux was booked on warrants Sunday morning accusing him of theft. All the thefts are alleged to have occurred in Carencro.
Last week, we first reported that he was cited for shoplifting after he was caught on camera allegedly loading items he hadn't paid for into his bag at a self-check-out at a grocery store. LPSS announced his resignation a couple days later.
We reached out to the Secretary of State to see if they had received the resignation; it's not official until they do. A spokesman said they hadn't received it yet.
We also reached out to Desormeaux when we first heard about this earlier on Wednesday, and he answered his cell phone. When our journalist identified himself and asked about the reported resignation, Desormeaux said "hello?" repeatedly and then hung up.
Here's our first story about this: https://www.katc.com/lafayette-parish/lafayette-school-board-member-cited-for-shoplifting
