BY RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS | STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED JUN 18, 2019 AT 11:42 AM | UPDATED JUN 18, 2019 AT 7:59 PM Wearing hooded sweatshirts to hide their faces and blue medical gloves that wouldn’t leave fingerprints, two men from Indiana barged into a CVS pharmacy on Prytania Street early Monday, bound two employees with…
“The absurdity of this defendant’s risk assessment speaks volumes about what is wrong with the criminal justice system in the City of New Orleans,” Cannizzaro said. Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 4:55 PM CDT June 18, 2019 Updated: 6:51 PM CDT June 18, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The two suspects arrested in Monday’s…
James Gill MAY 18, 2019 – 10:30 PM It wasn’t hard for the cops to identify suspects in the murder of New Orleans pizza deliveryman Richard “Chris” Yeager five years ago. Electronic monitors, which had been attached to the ankles of Rennel Brown and Shane Hughes while they awaited trial on other offenses, put them…
BY MATT SLEDGE | MSLEDGE@THEADVOCATE.COM MAY 15, 2019 – 7:33 PM After months with an electronic monitor strapped to his ankle, Aaron Jones was ready to leave the criminal justice system behind him when he walked into Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Paul Bonin’s courtroom last May. Jones pleaded guilty to a felony and…
By Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune For all of Chris Roberts’ political wheeling and dealing – plenty of it over 20 years in elected office – it wasn’t public corruption that the federal government ultimately alleged in the 29-count indictment against him. The defendant here is not so much Roberts the politician as Roberts…
