A rash of accidents staged by a connected circle of con artists are contributing to Louisiana’s high insurance rates. This is how it’s done. By Mike Perlstein | Eyewitness Investigator | November 21, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — At first glance, the police body camera seems to capture a New Orleans police officer handling a routine…
By Matt Sledge | Nola.com | November 13, 2019 Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judges forcefully defended their response to lawsuits targeting their reliance on court fees during a sometimes heated City Council hearing Wednesday as they asked the city to keep sending them an extra $3.8 million a year. The judges said during their…
Their trial, which has been delayed several times, is now scheduled for Jan. 21. By David Hammer | WWL Tv | November 13, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has ruled that recordings of Grammy-winning trumpeter Irvin Mayfield and his partner Ronald Markham, secretly recorded by a Louisiana auditor, can be used by prosecutors…
By Matt Sledge | Nola.com | November 12, 2019 When the judges of Criminal District Court went before the New Orleans City Council last year, they warned of a gaping hole in their budget from federal court decisions rejecting their practice of raising millions of dollars from fines and fees on mostly poor defendants. The…
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today the Indictment of DAMIAN K. LABEAUD (“LABEAUD”), age 47, of New Orleans and LUCINDA THOMAS (“THOMAS”), age 63, MARY WADE (“WADE”), age 55, JUDY WILLIAMS (“WILLIAMS”), age 59, and DASHONTAE YOUNG (“YOUNG”), age 25, all of Houma, Louisiana. These five defendants were charged in a six-count federal indictment with one (1) count of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371 and…
By Lea Skene | The Advocate | October 15, 2019 Three State Police troopers were transferred out of the agency’s training division this week after their superiors concluded that recent exercises went beyond “normal parameters” and caused significant injuries to some of the cadets involved. Several cadets participating in the training academy received injuries last…
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…