This afternoon, shortly after 1:00 P.M., a 61-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the 3200 block of Bienville Street. The victim’s name is being withheld, pending notification of family members. The victim was found inside his residence suffering from multiple stab wounds to his body. The victim died on the scene. Homicide Detective Maggie Darling [...]
In Louisiana, the law is clear regarding married spouses when they get a divorce as to who has rights to a child and who gets paid child support. But what happens if mommy and daddy were never married? And what happens if mommy gets a new boyfriend who raises the child? Under these situations, the law gets a [...]
A Supreme Court Upholds 14:95(e) Argued by Assistant District Attorney Kyle Daly The Louisiana Supreme Court appeared to be divided Tuesday on whether it should strike down a state law that allows prosecutors to charge someone with a high-grade felony for possessing a firearm at the same time as illegal drugs, regardless of the amount or [...]
DWI CHECKPOINT: Tomorrow night October 18, 2012, NOPD Traffic Section will conduct a Sobriety Checkpoint. The NOPD now is going to a No Refusal Policy and will have a Commissioner available twenty-four hours to sign warrants to draw blood. The New Orleans Police Department’s Traffic Division will conduct a sobriety checkpoint, in Orleans Parish, on Thursday October 18, 2012, [...]
Preston Porter is charged with Aggravated Rape of a Juvenile and Second Degree Kidnapping of a juvenile in Orleans Criminal District Court from an alleged incident occurred on January 3rd, 2012. Prosecutor Blair Bertholet presented the mother of the victim on the first day of Trial. Nadia Moore, the mother of the victim, testified that [...]
Police say a Kenner man found himself behind bars after a series of unfortunate events. Throme LaCroix, 20, was arrested Saturday after authorities say he accidentally blasted a friend in the arm with a shotgun, slammed his car into a pick-up truck while fleeing the scene and left behind a marijuana plant later discovered by authorities. Throme LaCroix, [...]
DENVER — Marijuana for recreational usebecame legal in Colorado Monday, when the governor took the procedural step of declaring the voter-approved change part of the state constitution. Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow pot use without a doctor’s recommendation. Both states prohibit public use of the drug, and commercial sales in Colorado and [...]
Illegal Carrying and Discharge of Weapons — 14:94 Illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentality is the intentional or criminally negligent discharging of any firearm, or the throwing, placing, or other use of any article, liquid, or substance, where it is foreseeable that it may result in death or great bodily harm to a human being. Penalties [...]
School Bus Shot as Crime in New Orleans Rises The NOPD is investigating a Monday afternoon shooting in Treme, where a man was injured and a bullet hit a school bus, shattering a window. A girl aboard the bus was cut by the flying glass, according to officer Frank Robertson III. No one on the bus was injured [...]
Civil District Court Judge Lloyd J. Medley, Jr. has upheld the City of New Orleans’ code enforcement action against the Lake Terrace Shopping Center located at 1532 Robert E. Lee Boulevard in Gentilly. The blighted shopping center has sat vacant since Hurricane Katrina. “I am pleased with Judge Medley’s ruling,” said Mayor Mitch Landrieu. “His ruling [...]
