A Jefferson Parish judge on Monday (Sept. 19) sentenced a 16-year-old to 55 years in prison for carjacking a couple in Harahan earlier this year, according to District Attorney Paul Connick.
Maurice Ervin was prosecuted as an adult and convicted of two counts of armed robbery with a firearm.
The violent carjacking unfolded along a busy stretch of Hickory Avenue on Feb. 12. The incident shocked residents and even sparked the Harahan mayor to release a statement to the community.
Cardell Hayes wasted no time filing a motion for a new trial.
Just two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the Constitution, Hayes’ attorneys filed a motion seeking to overturn his 10-2 manslaughter verdict handed down in 2016.
Hayes fatally shot former Saints star defensive lineman Will Smith and wounded Smith’s wife Raquel following a fender bender attributed to road rage. He is currently serving a 25-year sentence.
New Orleanians have become all too familiar with the toll of the opioid epidemic, which in recent years has claimed more lives in the city than gun violence.
But according to the coroner and a new lawsuit, a fatal fentanyl overdose one year ago happened in the last place where people should have access to illicit drugs: the city's jail.
Last week, relatives filed a suit in federal court alleging that the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and the jail’s private health care provider failed to take steps that would have prevented the death of 28-year-old Edward Patterson.
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A contracting company agreed to pay $9.1 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly sold the U.S. military defective earplugs.
The Minnesota-based 3M Company allegedly sold its dual-ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2, to the Defense Logistics Agency without disclosing defects that decreased the actual effectiveness of the hearing protection the device offered.
Patterson's family said they have yet to be contacted by the sheriff. But using information from other sources, including inmates, they have pieced together a troubling picture of a death that could they believe could have – and should have – been prevented.
NEW ORLEANS -- Edward Patterson had been locked up inside the Orleans Justice Center for nearly three years, waiting to go to trial on an attempted murder charge. Besides being an inmate, he was a husband, a father...
An attorney representing man who was accused of threatening to “shoot up” a Thibodaux store last month said his client suffers from PTSD and is a decorated Army war veteran.
Louis Albarado, 68, Thibodaux, was charged with terrorizing following an incident at the Walmart at 410 North Canal Blvd., the Thibodaux Police Department said. Shortly after 2:09 p.m. Dec. 23, the suspect entered the store and became irate after someone took his grocery cart...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An official says an inmate being held at the New Orleans jail for attempted murder has died after being found unresponsive in his cell.
Blake Arcuri, general counsel for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office which runs the jail, says in a statement that the 28-year-old inmate died Monday.
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A Lafourche Parish councilman has once again denied three criminal charges against him but got a new charge Thursday of violating a protective order.
In state District Court Thursday, James Bourgeois pleaded not guilty to an amended charge of violation of the homestead exemption law and a second charge of simple battery...
A judge has issued a permanent protective order against a man who claims a Lafourche Parish School Board member lives outside of the district he serves.
State District Judge Christopher Boudreaux issued the order against Kenneth Johnson, of Raceland, on behalf of Richmond Boyd Jr....
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A 17-year-old male charged with attempted second-degree murder following a shooting in Houma in October was granted a bond reduction Wednesday.
According to the Houma Police Department, Jedoireiyon Williams was involved in the shooting about 11:50 a.m. Oct. 18 in the vicinity of Morgan and Main streets that left a 41-year-old man injured.
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Prosecutors have dropped charges against a suspect in the Dec. 26, 2014, killing of a Thibodaux convenience store owner.
Bruce Johnson, 27, of Napoleonville was released from the Lafourche Parish jail today, sheriff’s Sgt. Brennan Matherne confirmed.
Thibodaux Police had charged Johnson with first-degree murder in the shooting of Lillian Alexis, 57, during an armed robbery at Mojeaux’s, 1200 Tiger Drive.... Read More
Charges have been dropped for a Gibson man accused of beating his girlfriend and killing their unborn child in early May.
Charges have been dropped for a Gibson man accused of beating his girlfriend and killing their unborn child in early May.
Tyson Cheavis, 37, of Jimmy’s Trailer Court, was charged May 6 with second-degree feticide, but the Terrebonne District Attorney’s Office dropped the charge Monday... Read More
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HOUMA, La. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Louisiana politician falsified his address to qualify for reflection last year and is ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution.
The Courier reports former Lafourche parish councilman John Arnold pleaded guilty Tuesday over two criminal mischief counts, was placed on two years unsupervised probation and also fined $500 plus court costs. District Attorney Cam Morvant II said in a statement the 42-year-old has paid half the restitution with the rest due before probation ends... Read More
Prosecutors declined charges today for two men accused in a Dec. 6 quadruple shooting at a party on Market Street in Raceland.
Jordan Williams, 23, and Kendell Thibodeaux, 22, both of Houma, were charged Dec. 29 after Tra’von Folse, 20, was killed and three other men were injured. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office charged Thibodeaux with second-degree murder and both men with attempted murder.
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Destinee Chaisson, 23, of Ann Carol Street, was charged last July with the unlawful use of a social networking website, but charges were dropped Thursday in Judge George Larke’s courtroom.
Destinee Chaisson, 23, of Ann Carol Street, was charged last July with the unlawful use of a social networking website, but charges were dropped Thursday in Judge George Larke’s courtroom... Read More
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