By Kimberly Curth | April 19, 2019 at 5:17 PM CDT – Updated April 19 at 5:31 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – For the first time, New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell responds to criticism over her decision to lower the threshold for speeding tickets in school zones. But a local watchdog has concerns about how…
BY MATT SLEDGE | The Advocate | Apr 12, 2019 – 4:15 pm A former state fire inspector who tried to hide the fact that he failed to visit a Grand Isle motel months before a fatal fire was convicted of attempting to injure public records on Thursday, New Orleans prosecutors said. Orleans Parish Criminal…
District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro’s office on Friday (April 12) announced the felony conviction of a former inspector with the state fire marshal’s office who attempted to hide his failure to inspect a Grand Isle motel where two people died in a blaze in September 2012. At the end of a one-day bench trial, Criminal District…
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…