By Rob Masson | Fox 8 New Orleans | April 4, 2019 at 4:30 PM CDT – Updated April 4 at 5:49 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A St. Claude business incubator has partnered with a new company whose goal is to eliminate wait times for people who get in car accidents in New Orleans. The New…
Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 6:57 PM CDT March 28, 2019 Updated: 11:24 PM CDT March 28, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The woman in charge of hiring new deputies at the troubled Orleans Justice Center jail was fired recently, the second human resources director to leave under a cloud in less than a…
BY MATT SLEDGE | MSLEDGE@THEADVOCATE.COM MAR 24, 2019 – 3:53 PM Louisiana taxpayers have spent more than $288,000 to pay the salaries both of two judges sidelined by sexual misconduct allegations and of their temporary replacements since May, and that figure is growing as investigations and court proceedings continue. The state has paid $114,000 to…
By Sara Pagones and Katie Moore | The Advocate | March 14, 2019 Terry Cederholm II, a patrol deputy who was fired by the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office this week following a felony drug arrest, had a rocky history with the agency, having resigned in 2009 under the cloud of a criminal investigation. But…
By Kiran Chawla | March 13, 2019 at 7:04 PM CDT – Updated March 14 at 10:26 AM PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) – Louisiana State Police says it is not investigating West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes. The development comes as the FBI considers investigating after a report from the 9News Investigators showed an undocumented…
By Kiran Chawla and Nick Gremillion | March 12, 2019 at 5:59 PM CDT – Updated March 12 at 7:24 PM PORT ALLEN, LA (WAFB) – A law enforcement watchdog says the actions of West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes may rise to criminal misconduct. “Sheriff took an oath to follow the laws and enforce the laws of Louisiana and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019 WWW.USDOJ.GOV/USAO/LAE NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAVID HANSON, age 61, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, and CLIFFORD “SKIP” KEEN, age 50, from Covington, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Wednesday, February 27, 2019 before United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to conspiracy to commit honest services…
By Chris Nakamoto and Erin McWilliams | February 28, 2019 | WBRZ GONZALES – An alarming internal memo obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit issues a directive to officers working seatbelt patrols to issue two tickets per hour and those on DWI patrols to make one arrest per six hours worked. The memo was sent…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 27, 2019 SHREVEPORT, NEW ORLEANS, LAFAYETTE, La. – United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a former Justice of the Peace for the Second Justice Court of Jefferson Parish was convicted by a federal jury in New Orleans for using his position to illegally obtain wage garnishments and…
By Tim Morris, Columnist District attorneys historically get elected and re-elected by putting people behind bars. No DA in Louisiana would be foolish enough to run on Blackstone’s maxim that “It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” The winning slogan is usually the opposite. That’s why a lot of…