Yea right

Dupuis said he has been in law enforcement the majority of his life and he is sworn to uphold and enforce the ordinances of the Town of Mamou and the laws of the state. In no way, he said, would he ever break the laws he is sworn to enforce.

Mamou Police Chief is a Convicted Felon

Updated: Aug 8, 2007 09:30 AM CDT

Greg Dupuis

Is a convicted felon allowed to hold public office?

That's the question some Mamou citizens are trying to have answered.

District Attorney Brent Coreil says he's looking into some complaints that were hand delivered to his office Monday.

The complaints center on whether or not Mamou Police Chief Greg Dupuis is legally holding office.

On the official form Dupuis filled out when he ran for office in 2004 you can see he checked number nine, swearing with his signature that he was not prohibited from qualifying as a candidate for conviction of a felony.

But back in 1997 Dupuis was convicted of malfeasance in office in Evangeline Parish while serving as chief of police.

The man who brought up these complaints, George Fisher, says Coreil referred him to the attorney general and Board of Ethics.

In the meantime, Fisher is asking every felon in the United States to run for office the way he says Dupuis has.

TV 10 tried to reach Chief Dupuis, but he did not return our phone calls.

Greg Dupuis was elected as Mamou Cheif of Police in 1995.

In 1997 he resigned from his office after he was convicted of malfeasance in office.

Dupuis then ran again in 2004 and won the election.

Grace White