By Fox 8 Staff | KALB | December 10, 2021 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Two people were killed in New Orleans on Fri., Dec. 10, pushing the city to over 200 homicides for the year. First, a man was shot multiple times in the Lower 9th Ward. The shooting happened around 2 p.m. in the…
By Paul Murphy | WWL-TV | December 9, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — Homicides, carjackings and non-fatal shootings are all up in New Orleans. Not just for this year, but for the last two years according to Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche. “From 2019 to 2021, carjackings are up over 160 percent,”…
By Chris Nakamoto | WBRZ | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW BATON ROUGE- Watchdogs are raising questions about whether a law enforcement officer arrested for domestic violence battery with child endangerment should have been allowed to return to work even though his criminal charges are pending. Colby Burns was arrested last month after a woman…
By Fox 8 Staff | WVUE | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Two men were shot and robbed in New Orleans while waiting for police to respond to a crash. According to the New Orleans Police Department, the two men were involved in a crash just before 10 p.m. on…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | December 7, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS – Two men got into a crash on the South Clairborne overpass around 9:30 p.m. on Monday. Before police could arrive, three armed men showed up. “Obviously, the suspects were just looking for victims,” says Rafael Goyeneche. The suspects robbed the…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | December 3, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — The mother of New Orleans Criminal Court Judge Robin Pittman was shot and critically wounded Thursday near her home in eastern New Orleans, the apparent victim of stray bullets aimed at someone else, according to witnesses and security camera video…
By David Hammer | WWL-TV | December 2, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — After a WWL-TV investigation prompted the FBI to raid the Sewerage & Water Board Plumbing Department in early November, the city blocked the head of that department, Jay Arnold, from getting permits for private gas line repairs and installation jobs.…
Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that former long-time St. Tammany Parish Sheriff RODNEY J. STRAIN (a/k/a Jack Strain), age 56, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to Count 15 of the Indictment returned in August 2019, charging him…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | December 1, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – The city’s 2021 homicide count continued climbing toward 200 on Wednesday (Dec. 1), following a fatal shooting Tuesday night and word that a man shot in Broadmoor on Nov. 16 has died nearly two weeks later. The latest two shooting deaths brought New…
By Kenny Lopez | WGNO | November 23, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — According to The Metropolitan Crime Commission since 2019, carjackings are up 170 percent and 28 percent up from 2020. “Over the last four days here have been at least 7 carjackings. It has gotten progressively worse over the last two…