Former 911 Assistant Director Sentenced To Community Service

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The former Berrien County 911 assistant director will perform 40 hours of community service for illegal use of a police computer. Rolland LaBaumbard entered a guilty plea yesterday, and was sentenced by Berrien County Trial Court Judge Art Cotter to also pay a fine and court costs. LaBaumbard said he called the dispatch center and asked them to run a license plate of a man who was at his mother’s house, putting things from her garage into a vehicle. According to the “Herald Palladium,” he admitted he should have called police instead. LaBaumbard’s 85-year-old mother is in rehab for open heart surgery, and he says he often checks on her house. He told the judge he called dispatch when the man he confronted on June 26 refused to give him identification when he tried to find out what he was doing at his mother’s house.