Fox 8/ By Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer/Jan. 12, 2024 at 3:49 PM CST NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A crime watchdog says the federal indictment charging former NOPD Sergeant Todd Morrell with 12 counts of wire fraud shows the Federal Government is paying close attention to allegations of corruption within the NOPD. The indictment lays out 12 times…
January 4, 2024 | By: FOX 8 Staff | fox8live.com NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A New Orleans Police Officer has been reassigned amid an internal investigation into a complaint that he was using narcotics on duty. Sources tell Fox 8 that Officer Maurice Bailey was caught on his body-worn camera smoking illegal narcotics inside of…
Auto thefts up 77% this year, an average of 20 each day By Gabriella Killett | nola.com | December 16, 2023 Having fallen on hard times, John Malley and his wife, Alexandria Thibodeaux, moved Dec. 6 from Colorado to New Orleans, where relatives offered them a place to stay until they could get back on their feet. They…
November 27, 2023 | fox8live.com | By: Ashlyn Brothers NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office has allowed nearly 1,300 felony defendants remain fugitives without having to forfeit their bonds after they failed to appear for scheduled court hearings, the Metropolitan Crime Commission said in a new report. “This is a system failure,”…
By David Jones| Fox8 | Nov. 8, 2023 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The New Orleans Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Wednesday (Nov. 8) released the results of its investigation into alleged bid-rigging in the city’s procurement process for the now-abandoned “Smart Cities” project. The report says two city employees might have violated state ethics law in awarding…
By Rachel Hernandez, Jordan Lippincott| WGNO | Nov. 1, 2023 NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Anne Kirkpatrick was sworn in as the new Superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department on Wednesday, Nov. 1. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell issued the oath of office to Kirkpatrick during a ceremony at Gallier Hall, making Kirkpatrick NOPD’s first permanent female…
In interviews by IG investigators, members of the sheriff’s staff who were offered rooms told the top brass up front that they didn’t think the rooms were necessary. By Mike Perlstein | 4WWL | Nov. 1, 2023 NEW ORLEANS — The controversy over Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson’s decision to pay for hotel rooms for 13…
By Ken Daley | Fox 8 | Oct. 17, 2023 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint Monday night (Oct. 16) in New Orleans, his spokesman said. “OPDA confirms that DA Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint as he was helping her…
Kate O’Keeffe and Cameron McWhirter, Wall Street Journal September 17, 2023 Prosecutors work with former intelligence officers and artificial-intelligence tools to gather and analyze evidence. The case against Dijon Dixon, accused of killing Cornelius Smith in 2019, looked to be falling apart after a key witness backed out following an online death threat. Then prosecutors presented the defense…
Lee Zurik and Dannah Sauer, FOX8 September 13, 2023 The Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office won’t file criminal charges against coroner Dr. John King, who is accused of performing unnecessary autopsies to pad his paycheck. However, after reviewing a Louisiana State Police investigation into the allegations, D.A. Kristine Russell said her office found no evidence…