A Houston police officer who tried to bilk $435,000 via a bogus basketball league for hurricane evacuees has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
Tracie Denise Bell, 41, had been with HPD for a dozen years when, prosecutors say, she conspired with a rookie cop to defraud the Houston Area Urban League. She eventually got almost $167,000 out of HAUL by billing it for expenses for several evacuee basketball leagues and camps that were non-existent.
The other former cop accused in the scheme, Kirshondra K. Richardson, 28, has yet to go to trial.
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