LSU Police Department officers arrested four people, including two Tiger Stadium workers, after receiving an anonymous tip that the workers were allegedly being paid to let others into football games without tickets, LSUPD Spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said Tuesday.
Brothers Casey McKenzie, 33, and Caleb McKenzie, 27, were arrested after LSUPD investigators saw them purchasing Event Staff wristbands from gate marshal James Oglethorpe, 34, and gate captain Judy Wilson, 59, Lalonde said.
Lalonde said LSUPD witnessed Casey McKenzie and Oglethorpe exchange cash for two wristbands Oct. 12. McKenzie also gave an envelope with cash in it to Wilson.
“[The investigators] continued watching and did see Casey McKenzie enter the stadium with four people, and none had tickets,” Lalonde said.
One of the individuals was Caleb McKenzie.
Lalonde said the other two individuals did not have knowledge of the exchange taking place.
Oglethorpe admitted to accepting between $120 and $140 this year and more than $400 in the past two years for wristbands he gave to other people, Lalonde said. He said Wilson denied she accepted any money but admitted she had let Casey McKenzie into games without tickets before.
Oglethorpe and Casey McKenzie were booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on felony theft charges. Wilson and Caleb McKenzie were both issued misdemeanor summons for theft.
Lalonde said LSUPD has been investigating to see if anyone else participated in the crime, but the investigators have no other information indicating the scheme involved more than four people.
“For now, we believe it was an isolated incident,” Lalonde said.