By Grace Toohey and Lea Skene Rogers Johnson Jr. spent six days behind bars for misdemeanor public intoxication because he couldn’t afford to post bail. He was released from East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Saturday afternoon — just in time to spend Father’s Day with his three children. “I just want to hug them…
By David Blake | WWL | June 3, 2019 Juvenile crime has been talked about for months and it frequently makes headlines in New Orleans. Tonight, the new juvenile curfew takes effect and there are both skeptics and others optimistic it will work. Rafael Goyeneche, Director of the Metro Crime Commission, is hopeful this kind…
By Natasha Robin | Fox 8 New Orleans | May 23, 2019 at 5:25 PM CDT – Updated May 23 at 5:51 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – With a juvenile crime problem escalating across New Orleans, Mayor Latoya Cantrell said one way to effectively stop it would be to create Evening Reporting Centers. “It’s a cooperative agreement…
By Kimberly Curth | Fox 8 New Orleans | May 21, 2019 at 9:57 PM CDT – Updated May 22 at 7:03 AM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – The man charged in the 2015 armed robbery of a well-known television reporter is now accused in a double shooting and murder. Not only does he have a long criminal…
BY MATT SLEDGE | The Advocate | Apr 12, 2019 – 4:15 pm A former state fire inspector who tried to hide the fact that he failed to visit a Grand Isle motel months before a fatal fire was convicted of attempting to injure public records on Thursday, New Orleans prosecutors said. Orleans Parish Criminal…
By Rob Masson | Fox 8 New Orleans | April 4, 2019 at 4:30 PM CDT – Updated April 4 at 5:49 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A St. Claude business incubator has partnered with a new company whose goal is to eliminate wait times for people who get in car accidents in New Orleans. The New…
By Sara Pagones and Katie Moore | The Advocate | March 14, 2019 Terry Cederholm II, a patrol deputy who was fired by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office this week following a felony drug arrest, had a rocky history with the agency, having resigned in 2009 under the cloud of a criminal investigation. But…
By Kiran Chawla | March 13, 2019 at 7:04 PM CDT – Updated March 14 at 10:26 AM PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) – Louisiana State Police says it is not investigating West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes. The development comes as the FBI considers investigating after a report from the 9News Investigators showed an undocumented…
By Kiran Chawla and Nick Gremillion | March 12, 2019 at 5:59 PM CDT – Updated March 12 at 7:24 PM PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) – A law enforcement watchdog says the actions of West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes may rise to criminal misconduct. “Sheriff took an oath to follow the laws and enforce the laws of Louisiana and…
By Chris Nakamoto and Erin McWilliams | February 28, 2019 | WBRZ GONZALES – An alarming internal memo obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit issues a directive to officers working seatbelt patrols to issue two tickets per hour and those on DWI patrols to make one arrest per six hours worked. The memo was sent…