The police chiefs of Oakdale and Forest Hill were among those accused of filing false reports that allowed migrants to apply for visas intended for crime victims.

The wife of a Louisiana police chief, who was charged amid a sweeping federal investigation into an immigration visa fraud scheme, was also arrested on Thursday.

What if the very officials sworn to enforce the law themselves commit a monstrous fraud? In Louisiana, three serving and former chiefs of police, one city marshal, and a businessman hatched a plot, federal investigators allege,