NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A contractor has pleaded guilty in federal court in a plot to steal federal grant funds earmarked for a Hurricane Katrina home repair program operated by a New Orleans city agency. Richard Hall of Harvey pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal conspiracy count, along with a... more »
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) - One of the men accused of slashing the tires of Thibodaux Police vehicles parked outside the department last year has pleaded guilty. The Daily Comet reports that Jonathan Watkins pleaded guilty to 11 counts of property damage and will serve two years in jail. The plea... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans man has accepted a 50-year prison sentence for his part in a plot that ended with the deaths of two 19-year-olds killed in an abandoned house after $10,000 ransom was demanded. Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro says Layman Foster Jr. pleaded guilty... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Sentencing is set for July 28 for 53-year-old Thomas Steven Sanders, who pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old Las Vegas girl. Sanders pleaded guilty June 28 to federal charges in the death of Lexis Roberts, whose body was found in Catahoula Parish... more »
A Lafayette man will serve ten years in prison for a car accident that killed two people in December 2009. Monday, Justin Credeur plead guilty to two counts of vehicular homicide. The accident happened on December 5, 2009 on Eraste Landry Road. Credeur was driving the vehicle with two passengers... more »
ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (AP) - A 40-year-old Baton Rouge man has pleaded guilty to an attempted manslaughter charge in the March 2007 shooting of a state trooper during a traffic stop in St. Martin Parish. Tyrone Mack was accused of shooting Trooper Frank Garcia in the hip with Garcia's gun... more »
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - A former Vinton assistant police chief has pleaded guilty to malfeasance. Chad Porterfield, 35, of Vinton, entered his plea Monday in Lake Charles. Porterfield's sentencing was set for July 6. He faces up to five years in prison. As part of a plea agreement, a... more »