By Natasha Robin | WVUE | August 1, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – With a film crew in tow, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams returned to a courthouse as a prosecutor instead of a defendant on Monday (Aug. 1). “I’m ready to get back in the courtroom and try a case…
By James Finn & Lea Skene | The Advocate | July 30, 2022 Long before the murder-suicide, Van Hopkins had been warned. His own business partner accused him of running his ankle-monitoring business in a way that risked “failing to actually supervise people.” Hopkins, at least a decade into his career, was familiar with the…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | July 29, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams was acquitted on all charges of Federal tax fraud in court yesterday. Now Williams is expected to return to work after the two work hiatus. WGNO’s Kenny Lopez talked to The Metropolitan Crime Commission…
By Anna McAllister | WGNO | July 25, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) —”I have saved more lives and protected myself and others more with a tourniquet or a trauma kit than I have with a firearm,” said Brannon LeBouef. Because LeBouef was at the right place at the right time Sunday night,…
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…