By Missy Wilkinson | NOLA.com | June 1, 2023 Days after a 17-year-old boy was shot while driving on Interstate 10 near the Elysian Fields exit, New Orleans police on Thursday remained tight-lipped about the shooting and potential strategies they may be considering to end the bloodshed on highways that feel increasingly unsafe. The teen was…
By: Danae Columbus | uptownmessenger.com | June 1, 2023 Lawyer Bill Aaron, a former city attorney under Mayor Sidney Barthelemy, raised a few eyebrows recently when he posted support for Republican state Rep. Debbie Villio’s House Bill 321, the Truth and Transparency Act, which would make public the criminal records of juveniles over the age of 13…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL-TV | May 15, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating four separate shootings that left three people dead and one wounded Sunday night, two of those shootings happened just minutes apart from each other. The first was a shooting in the 2300 block of Toledano…
By Joseph Cranney | NOLA.com | May 12, 2023 A controversial Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employee whom Sheriff Susan Hutson said she was dismissing in March has still not been let go, and it’s not clear when she might be on her way out. Instead, Kristen Morales is working remotely, doesn’t submit timesheets and has…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | May 12, 2023 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Three women have lost their lives in separate incidents over the past 24 hours, adding to the concerning rise in the number of female victims across the city. Two women were shot multiple times in the 1000 block of North Claiborne early…
By Dionne Johnson | KLFY | May 10, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) A bribery scheme of kickbacks that involved a former contract employee within the 15th Judicial District, Lafayette’s District Attorney’s has captured the attention of the Metropolitan Crime Commission. The commission president, Rafael Goyeneche, says he has never seen anything that…
By David Jones | WVUE | May 5, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A man arrested for carrying an automatic weapon in the French Quarter, who was then released after the charges were refused, now faces federal charges. An indictment by a grand jury charged Keaton Manghave, a Tennessee resident, with illegally…
By Andres Fuentes | WVUE | May 4, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Thursday afternoon (May 4), Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams stood side-by-side with notable New Orleans East figures – all united against the crime wave plaguing the city. Business owners, faith leaders and city officials were at the eastbound…
By Lee Zurik & Dannah Sauer | WVUE | May 3, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The federal monitor in charge of overseeing the New Orleans Police Department’s compliance with the consent decree says the department’s Public Integrity Bureau has been “backsliding.” The monitor’s 44-page report specifically cites the internal investigation into…
By Lee Zurik & Dannah Sauer | WVUE | May 2, 2023 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – New Orleans police officer Jeffrey Vappie was removed from Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s security detail in November 2022 amid a series of Fox 8 investigations. Those reports focused on his time spent with the mayor, both on…