By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | October 13, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams swept into office in January riding a wave of reform, promising second chances to low-level defendants, but serious consequences for violent offenders. In a report released today, however, the non-profit Metropolitan Crime Commission said…
By FOX 8 Staff | WVUE | October 13, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Orleans Parish prosecutors refused more felony cases than they accepted in the first eight months of District Attorney Jason Williams’ tenure, and have become far less vigorous about holding accountable those accused of violent crimes in the city, a…
Thursday, October 7th, 2021 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that AISHA THOMPSON (“THOMPSON”), age 43, of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty on October 6, 2021 to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged…
By Travers Mackel | WDSU | October 7, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO Zero jury trials have happened in New Orleans at criminal court since the pandemic started over a year and a half ago. It comes as crime is on the rise and police are making arrests. Criminal defense lawyer John Fuller is ready to…
Wednesday, October 6th, 2021 NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID HANSON, age 63, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, and CLIFFORD “SKIP” KEEN, age 53, from Covington, Louisiana, were each sentenced today to 50 months imprisonment by United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle, after they previously pleaded guilty as charged to…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | October 4, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — A high-ranking supervisor at the Orleans Parish Communications District Access has been barred from a sensitive but commonly used federal criminal database for more than a year because she has a felony conviction, the New Orleans Office of Inspector General revealed Friday. Wendy…
By Ramon Antonio Vargas | NOLA.com | October 1, 2021 For nearly two years, a key supervisor at the office that dispatches New Orleans’ first responders to 911 calls had access to a national criminal records database despite having a prior felony conviction that should have barred her from using it, the city’s Office of…
By Jasmine Anderson | KNOE | September 29, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW MONROE, La. (KNOE) – A police watchdog group wants changes to the pension of police officers. Across the country, some get their pension even if convicted of a felony. In Louisiana, there’s a law that says pension can be garnished, but only for financial…
By Kiran Chawla | Unfiltered with Kiran | September 20, 2021 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW An important vote is expected at Tuesday’s New Roads council meeting to override Mayor Cornell Dukes’ veto. It goes back to Mayor Dukes’ security detail that’s provided by the New Roads Police Dept. officers. There is no ordinance for New Roads…
By Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | September 16, 2021 In a radio interview Wednesday, Gov. John Bel Edwards downplayed reports that Louisiana State Police troopers engaged in an attempted cover-up of the 2019 death of Ronald Greene, saying many of the cover-up allegations are “overblown or just false.” “Sometimes the media is incomplete in…