Former St. Tammany D.A. Employee and Private Investigator Sentenced for Unauthorized Access of Government Computer

NEW ORLEANS, LA—VICKY LYNN MUNN, age (42), currently residing in Traverse City, Michigan, and TODD KELLY, age (40), a resident of River Ridge, Louisiana, were each sentenced in federal court today by U. S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to three years (3) probation for their roles in a scheme that involved the sale of National Crime Information Center (NCIC) reports, commonly known as “rap sheets.”  MUNN, who was then a civilian employee in the St. Tammany Parish District Attorney’s Worthless Checks Division, exceeded her authorized access to those reports when she produced them for sale to KELLY, who operated a local private detective agency. 

According to court documents, On January 22, 2009, MUNN and KELLY pled guilty admitted that according to the factual basis, MUNN, a former supervisor in the worthless checks division of the St. Tammany Parish District Attorney’s Office, generating National Crime Information Center (NCIC) criminal histories, or “rap sheets,” the legitimate use of which is confined to law enforcement activities, and then selling these reports to KELLY, a private investigator, on various occasions from 2003 to May of 2005. 

The case was investigated by the New Orleans office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael E. McMahon.