By David Hammer | WWL-TV | November 10, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — Grammy-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his business partner Ronald Markham pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud by transferring more than $1 million in public library donations to their jazz orchestra and lying about it in fabricated records. They entered the plea in…
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana (EDLA) announced that IRVIN MAYFIELD, age 43, a resident of New Orleans, and RONALD MARKHAM, age 42, also a resident of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the New Orleans Public Library Foundation out…
By Paul Murphy/Eyewitness News | WWL-TV | November 9, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — New Orleans is now on track to reverse a four-year trend where the number of murders fell year over year. “We’re experiencing a violent crime surge in this city that we haven’t seen in many years, right now,” Metropolitan Crime…
By Morgan Lentes | WDSU | November 9, 2020 CLICK FOR FULL VIDEO NEW ORLEANS — A local nonprofit has released a report highlighting an uptick in homicides, shootings and other violent crime in New Orleans this year. Rafael Goyeneche, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, said given these trends, Mayor LaToya Cantrell should reconsider…
By Ramon Antonio Vargas | NOLA.com | November 9, 2020 City statistics suggest that New Orleans is experiencing a sharp rise in violent crime this year, and the head of the watchdog Metropolitan Crime Commission warned Monday that it could get worse if Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration continues furloughing police officers. The remarks from the…
By LBJ | WGNO | November 9, 2020 CLICK FOR FULL VIDEO NEW ORLEANS— The Metropolitan Crime Commission released it’s annual report on crime in New Orleans and it’s frightening. New Orleans is a much more violent city than it was at this time last year. Rafael Goyeneche of MCC states, “Violent crime calls are going up. Homicides are…
By Kenny Kuhn | WWL Radio | November 9, 2020 The New Orleans crime statistics are out and they do not look good. According the President of The Metropolitan Crime Commission, Rafael Goyeneche, violent crime have spiked in the city of New Orleans. “Particularly, shootings, and homicides, and carjackings, so those are some of the…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | November 9, 2020 Newell talks to Rafael Goyeneche from Metropolitan Crime Commission about disturbing trends emerging in New Orleans’ crime data sets Press play below to listen to full interview
By James Gill | NOLA.com | November 8, 2020 The big question in New Orleans DA’s races used to be who would do a better job of locking ’em up and throwing away the key. In those good old days, the best way to whip the public into a fury was to explain that some…
By Mike Perlstein/Eyewitness Investigator | WWL-TV | November 5, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — After 32 defendants were previously indicted as street-level scammers over the past year, the sprawling federal investigation into staged truck accidents has led to its first criminal charge against an attorney. New Orleans attorney Daniel Patrick Keating, 51, faces one count of…