Des Allemands woman charged with BP relief fraud

NEW ORLEANS — A federal grand jury in New Orleans has charged a 42-year-old Des Allemands woman with making a false claim for disaster relief after the 2010 BP oil spill.

The indictment says Melissa Ann Duran claimed she had worked as a seafood processor for a commercial fisherman for two years before the spill. Prosecutors say she filed false documentation with the federal government.