“The absurdity of this defendant’s risk assessment speaks volumes about what is wrong with the criminal justice system in the City of New Orleans,” Cannizzaro said. Author: Mike Perlstein / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 4:55 PM CDT June 18, 2019 Updated: 6:51 PM CDT June 18, 2019 NEW ORLEANS — The two suspects arrested in Monday’s…
By Grace Toohey and Lea Skene Rogers Johnson Jr. spent six days behind bars for misdemeanor public intoxication because he couldn’t afford to post bail. He was released from East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on Saturday afternoon — just in time to spend Father’s Day with his three children. “I just want to hug them…
By David Blake | WWL | June 3, 2019 Juvenile crime has been talked about for months and it frequently makes headlines in New Orleans. Tonight, the new juvenile curfew takes effect and there are both skeptics and others optimistic it will work. Rafael Goyeneche, Director of the Metro Crime Commission, is hopeful this kind…
By Natasha Robin | Fox 8 New Orleans | May 23, 2019 at 5:25 PM CDT – Updated May 23 at 5:51 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – With a juvenile crime problem escalating across New Orleans, Mayor Latoya Cantrell said one way to effectively stop it would be to create Evening Reporting Centers. “It’s a cooperative agreement…
By Kimberly Curth | Fox 8 New Orleans | May 21, 2019 at 9:57 PM CDT – Updated May 22 at 7:03 AM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – The man charged in the 2015 armed robbery of a well-known television reporter is now accused in a double shooting and murder. Not only does he have a long criminal…
James Gill MAY 18, 2019 – 10:30 PM It wasn’t hard for the cops to identify suspects in the murder of New Orleans pizza deliveryman Richard “Chris” Yeager five years ago. Electronic monitors, which had been attached to the ankles of Rennel Brown and Shane Hughes while they awaited trial on other offenses, put them…
BY MATT SLEDGE | MSLEDGE@THEADVOCATE.COM MAY 15, 2019 – 7:33 PM After months with an electronic monitor strapped to his ankle, Aaron Jones was ready to leave the criminal justice system behind him when he walked into Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Paul Bonin’s courtroom last May. Jones pleaded guilty to a felony and…
By Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune For all of Chris Roberts’ political wheeling and dealing – plenty of it over 20 years in elected office – it wasn’t public corruption that the federal government ultimately alleged in the 29-count indictment against him. The defendant here is not so much Roberts the politician as Roberts…
MAY 9, 2019 NEW ORLEANS – The United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana announced that CHRISTOPHER LORELL ROBERTS, JR., age 41, a resident of Gretna, Louisiana, was charged today in a 29-count Indictment with wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and tax evasion, in violation of…
May 02, 2019 4:06 PM in News Source: WBRZ By: Chris Nakamoto and Erin McWilliams BATON ROUGE – Two weeks after a man broke into one of the state’s most secure homes staffed with security, Louisiana State Police have refused to answer any questions about the incident. “The Louisiana State Police can’t comment in regard…