Where can I access the plea agreement or OIG interview transcripts for the Courvelle detention‑officer case?
Executive summary
The publicly available plea agreement in the David Courvelle case can be accessed through reproduced court filings hosted by local news outlets and court‑document repositories; at least two copies of the plea agreement are online (KLFY’s PDF and a CourtListener docket copy) [1] [2]. Reporting refers to an interview by investigators from the ICE Office of the Inspector General in which Courvelle initially denied the relationship and later confessed, but no OIG interview transcript is contained in the provided sources and no direct public link to such a transcript appears on the DOJ OIG pages cited here [3] [4].
1. Where the plea agreement is available — reproduced court filings and public dockets
The plea agreement itself has been posted as a PDF by local media that obtained the court document (KLFY’s site hosts courvelle-plea-agreement.pdf) and the full agreement also appears in a federal docket copy available via CourtListener’s storage of Western District of Louisiana filings [1] [2]; these reproductions include the defendant’s signatures and the written terms of the government’s offer. Major local and national outlets have summarized or quoted the court documents — WDSU, WWLTV, The Advocate and others cite the same court filings and courtroom statements that the plea agreement contains, confirming that the formal plea paperwork was filed in Lafayette federal court and is part of the public record [5] [6] [7]. Anyone seeking the official text can download the klfy-hosted PDF or retrieve the filing through the CourtListener link noted in reporting [1] [2].
2. The reporting about an OIG interview — what is reported, and what’s not present in the public record here
Multiple news stories state that Courvelle “initially denied the relationship during a September interview with investigators from the ICE Office of the Inspector General but confessed ‘about half an hour into the interview,’” language that appears in prosecutor summaries and news coverage [3]; other outlets also reference investigators’ interviews as sources for the timeline of denial and subsequent admission [5]. However, none of the supplied sources include or link to a verbatim transcript of an OIG interview, and the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General site indexed in the sources lists OIG reports generally but does not show a public interview transcript for this matter among the items returned in these search snippets [8] [4]. In short: reporting cites an OIG interview as a factual element, but a primary OIG transcript is not present in the material provided.
3. How to proceed if an OIG transcript is required — court records, OIG inquiries, and FOIA avenues
The clear starting points are the public court filings (the plea agreement available via KLFY and CourtListener) and the federal court docket in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, which will list related filings and any government disclosures that were entered into the record [2] [1]. For an OIG interview transcript specifically, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General is the agency that conducted the interview according to reporting, so its public website is the logical place to check for released investigative records or reports that might include transcript excerpts [4]. The supplied reporting does not show a released OIG transcript, so locating one — if it exists and is releasable — will likely require searching the OIG’s public releases and docketed exhibits or contacting the OIG about public‑records procedures noted on its site [4]; the reporting here does not document whether such a transcript has been posted.
4. What the documents and reporting reveal and where to watch next
The plea agreement and court filings reproduced in local media and court repositories provide the legally operative admissions and the government’s case summary [1] [2], while contemporaneous news stories supply context about dates, alleged locations of encounters, and statements made in court [6] [7]. Because reporting references but does not reproduce a full OIG interview transcript, any researcher seeking raw investigator notes or verbatim OIG interview text should first download the plea agreement from the links above [1] [2], then monitor the DOJ OIG public releases and the Western District of Louisiana docket for any newly filed exhibits; if those searches come up empty, the OIG’s public‑records office is the next portal to inquire about availability — the supplied sources confirm the OIG as the interviewing body but do not supply a transcript themselves [3] [4].