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…
NEW ORLEANS — Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, on Tuesday, identified violent juvenile offenders as New Orleans’ biggest local crime issue for 2019. Cannizzaro noted that the city’s 735 new juvenile felony cases in 2018 nearly exceeded the totals of 2016 and 2017 combined (776). The million-dollar question is: Why? What caused the numbers…
By Natasha Robin | February 5, 2019 at 5:41 PM CST – Updated February 5 at 5:42 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – In a ballroom filled with state, federal and local leaders, Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro didn’t mince words about what he calls ill-conceived police decisions and social experiments. “We have a crime problem.…
Advocate staff report New Orleans’ Metropolitan Crime Commission presented awards Tuesday to law enforcement officials who secured convictions in two high-profile killings as well as one prosecutor who specializes in building gangland cases. One of the “Excellence in Law Enforcement Awards” given out at the Sheraton Hotel went to FBI agents and assistant U.S. attorneys…
Travis Mackel NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of dollars in what the City Council calls questionable overtime have been paid out to one city agency. And that agency is now at the center of an investigation by the New Orleans Office of Inspector General. In some cases, city workers earned up to 90 percent…
By Natasha Robin | January 31, 2019 at 6:07 PM CST – Updated January 31 at 6:07 PM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – “We are actually very lucky and we are very proud to say the least in that we ranked first,” says Tenisha Stevens. Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s Criminal Justice Administrator, Tenisha Stevens, says the MacArthur…
By Kimberly Curth | January 29, 2019 at 9:15 PM CST – Updated January 30 at 5:25 AM | Fox 8 New Orleans NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The NOPD’s new police chief said Tuesday that the department, with the help of state, federal and local authorities, has arrested some of the city’s most violent offenders. “Many of…
By Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune | Posted January 18, 2019 at 05:05 AM | Updated January 18, 2019 at 07:11 AM North Shore Judges Peter Garcia and Martin Coady were the most efficient judges in handling felony cases in St. Tammany Parish during 2016 and 2017, according to a study released Friday (Jan.…
BY SARA PAGONES | SPAGONES@THEADVOCATE.COM JAN 18, 2019 – 9:51 AM It took a month longer for a felony case to move through 22nd Judicial District Court in 2017 than it did just three years before, according to a report on St. Tammany Parish’s judicial efficiency that was released Friday by the Metropolitan Crime Commission.…