By Stephen Stock, Dannah Sauer and Jon Turnipseed | fox8live.com | May 27, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The ongoing search for two remaining Orleans Parish jail escapees is costing New Orleans hundreds of thousands of dollars each week and draining law enforcement resources from other duties, Fox 8 has learned. A top city official tells Fox 8 that…
By: Alyse Pfeil and Sophie Kasakove | nola.com | May 25, 2025 Less than a year after Louisiana agreed to let people conceal their weapons without a permit, state lawmakers are weighing whether to allow permitless concealed guns near schools and on parade routes, sparking fresh criticism in New Orleans. Senate Bill 101, by state Sen.…
By: Jasmine Franklin | wdsu.com | May 19, 2025 NEW ORLEANS — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued multiple executive orders after 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Parish Jail early Friday morning. In a news conference Sunday, Landry ordered an audit of the Orleans Correctional Facility by the Department of Corrections. The audit would remove all…
By: Ken Daley and Rob Masson | fox8live.com | April 16, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Longtime New Orleans criminal court Judge Darryl Derbigny costs city taxpayers millions in jailing and police overtime costs because of the glacial pace with which cases progress through his courtroom, according to a new watchdog report on judicial efficiency. Derbigny…
By: Ken Daley | fox8live.com | April 14, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The city’s Civil Service Commission found Monday (April 14) that Mayor LaToya Cantrell improperly infringed on the promotion of high-ranking New Orleans Police Department officers last year in a specific effort to benefit Lt. Sabrina Richardson. The commission noted Cantrell’s refusal to…
By: Thanh Truong | fox8live.com | March 5, 2025 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The heightened police presence in New Orleans during Mardi Gras helped deliver one of the safest Carnival seasons in recent history, according to law enforcement officials and public safety advocates. Following the deadly New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street, the U.S.…
By: Chris Joseph | fox8live.com | February 24, 2025 (WVUE) – A federal judge sentenced former NOPD Sgt. Todd Morrell to five years probation plus restitution and community service on Tuesday (2/25) for six counts of wire fraud. Judge Jay Zainey ordered Morrell to pay a $5 thousand fine, avoid taking on additional debt without…
May 29, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced MARIO SOLOMON (“SOLOMON”), age 48, of New Orleans, entered a plea of guilty on May 28, 2020 to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile accidents with tractor-trailers…
By Aubrey Killion | WDSU | May 27, 2020 ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. —The coronavirus has crippled courts across southeast Louisiana. One is in St. John the Baptist Parish, where a judge there was suspended after being accused of inappropriately touching juveniles. Records WDSU Investigates has obtained show he’s been getting paid not…
By Staff | KPLC | May 26, 2020 LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) – For years the public has been able to access financial disclosures of elected officials through the State Ethics Board, except for judges. But after being nudged by a watchdog group, the State Supreme Court is making such information more easily available to…