By Olivia Vidal | WVUE | July 25, 2022 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The Metropolitan Crime Commission reports the number of shootings in New Orleans is up 104 percent through seven months this year compared to all of 2019. Homicide totals are up 139 percent. “Violent crime in this city continues to…
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana Thursday, July 21st, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that STACIE WHEATEN (“S. WHEATEN”), age 51, of Fairburn, Georgia, pled guilty on July 21, 2022 to count one (1) of her indictment, charging Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18,…
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana Thursday, July 21st, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LARRY WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS”), age 49, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of a staged…
By LBJ | WGNO | July 20, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Facial recognition software for the NOPD is back on the table. Many business and neighborhood leaders, fed up with violent crime, support the technology, in spite of criticism that it violates privacy rights. Tomorrow, the city council is set to vote…
By Fox 8 Staff | WVUE | July 19, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) – About half of the juvenile inmates at the troubled Bridge City Center for Youth will be transferred within the next month to a special wing being prepared at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Gov. John Bel…
By David Jones | WVUE | July 18, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO BRIDGE CITY, La. (WVUE) – Governor John Bel Edwards will address the future of the troubled Bridge City Center for Youth on Tuesday (July 19), with sources confirming to Fox 8 those plans include quickly reducing the number of violent offenders housed at…
By Michael Lee | Fox News | July 18, 2022 New Orleans business owners are fed up with the rise in crime in the city, which has seen its murder rate spike to highs unseen in almost three decades. “I think there is a lot of people that have worked in the French Quarter and…
By Nick Chrastil | The Lens | July 15, 2022 More than two years after he was federally indicted on charges of tax fraud, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams is set to go to trial on Monday, the outcome of which has the potential to upend the criminal legal system in New Orleans. If convicted…
By Rob Masson | WVUE | July 14, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A mother has been issued a municipal summons after another two-year-old was shot in New Orleans East Wednesday night. The boy was just the latest victim in a string of shootings involving children, and community concern is growing. “We somehow dropped the ball in…
Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Eastern District of Louisiana Thursday, July 14th, 2022 NEW ORLEANS – The United States Attorney’s Office announced that former Louisiana State Senator and Chair of State Political Party “A”, KAREN CARTER PETERSON, age 52, from New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with wire fraud,…