NEW ORLEANS -- A former 911 dispatcher in St. Charles Parish gets almost six years for selling crack cocaine and using the office computer illegally.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says Judge Carl Barbier sentenced 26-year-old Demond Boudoin of Edgard on Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison.

Letten says a confidential source bought cocaine from Boudin five times -- twice in front of the 911 communications center.

He says Boudoin also checked a license plate number in the National Crime Information computer for an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer. The federal charge was unauthorized access to a computer to help possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute it.

The charges were in a bill of information, and Boudoin pleaded guilty in November.

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