By WAFB Staff | WAFB | October 14, 2019 BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Louisiana State Police is trying to do some damage control after the 9News Investigators brought forth allegations of possible hazing and a cheating scandal. Three troopers have been transferred out of their positions with the training academy and two cadets have…
Shreveport, New Orleans, Lafayette, La. – Today, Patrick Hale Dejean, former Justice of the Peace for the Second Justice Court of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to three years in federal prison for committing 13 counts of mail fraud and three counts of making false statements to a…
By David Hammer | WWL | October 2, 2019 Three months before their scheduled federal trial on 23 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering, lawyers for Grammy-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his longtime partner tried to convince a federal judge Wednesday to keep out of evidence audio recordings an investigative auditor secretly made of…
By Newell Normand | WWL Radio | October 1, 2019 One in seven adults in New Orleans have a warrant out for their arrest, according a recent article in the Washington Post. The response by some of the City Council members resembles a series of dots that don’t really connect. Newell invited Rafael Goyeneche from the Metropolitan…
By Danny Monteverde | WWL | September 30, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — Chief public defender Derwyn Bunton left the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse on Monday with one order from Criminal District Judge Paul Bonin: come back another day. Bunton is looking to have public defenders Beth Sgro and James Brockway recused from a case they…
By Jeff Adelson and Matt Sledge | NOLA.com | September 25, 2019 New Orleans City Council members want to wipe the slate clean for tens of thousands of people with unpaid fines and fees, some almost two decades old, in the city’s municipal and traffic courts. The council’s Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday gave the…
By Paul Murphy | WWL | September 24, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — According to city data — there are more than 55,000 outstanding warrants in Municipal and Traffic Court in New Orleans. If you do the math, that means there is 1 outstanding warrant for every 7 people in the city of New Orleans. “The…
By Natasha Robin | Fox 8 | September 4, 2019 NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – Crime watchdog Rafael Goyeneche viewed the NOPD Swat Team body camera footage, from what unfolded inside the Juvenile Justice Center last month (Aug. 15), when investigators say several juveniles barricaded themselves in a cell and threatened staff. “It demonstrates that…
By Gordon Russell, Bob Warren and Ramon Antonio Vargas | Nola.com | August 29, 2019 Federal authorities announced Thursday that Jack Strain, once a looming political figure in St. Tammany Parish politics whose legacy is now tainted by political scandal and accusations of sex crimes, has been charged in a corruption case stemming from his…
By James Gill | Nola.com | August 7, 2019 If a federal grand jury has your financial dealings under investigation, and a state auditor comes knocking on the door, it might be a good idea not to open it. Jazz superstar Irvin Mayfield and his friend and fellow musician Ronald Markham sure wish they had…