BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Two Pineville women have pleaded guilty to federal charges of health care fraud. Forty-seven-year-old Carla Clark and 57-year-old Lillie Lavan enter that pleas Monday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Frank J. Polozola. The women were accused of creating false and misleading medical records and... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Nicaraguan man and a New York woman have pleaded guilty to charges they conspired to smuggle heroin into the U.S. on a ship that docked in Louisiana. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said the guilty pleas Wednesday by 41-year-old Ernesto Ramon Ali Valles and 37-year-old... more »
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Two Mexican citizens have pleaded guilty in federal court to bulk cash smuggling for attempting to transport money concealed in a car door across the Mexican border. Court documents say Martin Luna and Urbano Santiago tried to smuggle more than $100,000 in cash into Mexico.... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A tax preparer and her husband, a former St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputy, have pleaded guilty to plotting to file more than $800,000 in fraudulent tax returns and pocket IRS payments. Thirty-seven-year-old Tamara Scott-Landry and 42-year-old Warren Lebeauf Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy charges. Scott-Landry... more »
COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Three men have pleaded guilty to stealing a newborn calf and beating it to death after the New Orleans Saints lost to the Dallas Cowboys last year. According to Wednesday's Times-Picayune, Dwayne J. Jenkins, David J. LeBlanc Jr. and Carnie B. Smith stole the 3-day-old calf... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A New Orleans doctor and the owner of a medical equipment company have pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to submit more than $775,000 in fraudulent Medicare claims. Dr. Dahlia Kirkpatrick and Emmanuel Komandu, owner of Baker-based Alpha Medical Solutions Inc., each face maximum... more »
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -Four former state employees have pleaded guilty in federal court to charges related to disaster food stamp fraud. U.S. District Judge Richard Haik accepted guilty pleas Monday from 46-year-old Angela Gray of New Iberia; 46-year-old Edie Harrison of New Iberia; 54-year-old Paula Bell of Baldwin; and 41-year-old... more »