govenrment theives! Original Article Kenner police find relief supplies in city official's home The Associated Press September 22. 2005 8:48PM Police got a warrant Thursday to arrest Kenner's chief administrative officer, who is accused of taking four pickup-truck loads of clothes, tools, food and other supplies meant for hurricane victims. The warrant accused Cedric Floyd of malfeasance in office, a felony. Mayor Phil Capitano, who defeated Police Chief Nick Congemi in the 2004 election for mayor, suspended Floyd without pay on Wednesday, a day after police seached Floyd's house. Until then, Floyd was paid $82,522 a year as one of Capitano's top two aides, managing daily operations for Louisiana's sixth-largest city and supervising all workers except those in the legal, fire and police departments. Floyd's attorney told police Floyd was out of town, but would turn himself in when he returned, said Capt. Steve Caraway, a Kenner Police Department spokesman. Earlier Thursday, Floyd said he wasn't taking anything - merely storing supplies from a city-run relief site until they could be moved to New Hope Community Church, where they would be distributed to needy people in its neighborhood. "We gave stuff in bulk," he said. "What is too much?" The church's pastor, Mark Mitchell, corroborated Floyd's account. "We just kept missing each other to get these goods," Mitchell said. Both said Floyd had twice earlier taken donated goods to Mitchell instead of requiring the pastor to go to the city distribution center at 25th Street and Williams Boulevard. Military officials who had been working at the distribution site filed a complaint against Floyd. State Attorney General Charles Foti's office is helping Kenner police in the investigation. It took a big pickup truck four trips to carry away all of the goods, including lanterns, vacuums and clothes with price tags attached, Caraway said Wednesday. Thousands of hurricane-stricken residents of the city a few miles west of New Orleans lined up each day at a furniture store parking lot to get clothing, food, household items and tons of other donated supplies.