New Orleans Metro Crime and Courts News

Tracking local crime, criminal justice and courts news in metro New Orleans, Louisiana

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A West Virginia woman accused with her boyfriend of strangling her grandfather at a Bucktown apartment five years ago and then driving the body to her home state pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice in a homicide. Mary Crawford, 39, of Gerrardstown, W.Va., pleaded guilty after the Jefferson Parish district attorney's office dismissed a charge of second-degree murder.... Full story »

Police on Thursday released photos of a suspect in a March 2 business burglary in eastern New Orleans in an effort to identify him. The burglary happened about 12:05 a.m. at a business in the 9900 block of Lake Forest Boulevard. Investigators said the man hopped through a window, stole money from the cash register and fled. A surveillance... Full story »

Death of Paige DeJean, whose father was serving overseas with the Louisiana National Guard, rocked community Full story »

A LaPlace man was convicted Thursday of robbing a Kenner bank two years ago and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, but a Jefferson Parish jury acquitted him of attempted murder and being in possession of a stolen vehicle, all charges stemming from the same incident. Andrew Horne, 25, was convicted of armed robbery and faces... Full story »

Deloyd Jones Police are searching for a young man accused of taking part in a drive-by shootings last month that wounded a man and a 76-year-old woman, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Deloyd Jones, 18, will be booked with several crimes, including attempted murder and aggravated battery, whenever detectives catch him. Jones apparently attracted police attention after they detained... Full story »

Almost eight years after New Orleans awoke to learn that an 11-year-old girl and her 16-year-old uncle were ripped apart by gunfire when another child had opened the family's front door, a jury convicted Billy Ray Lewis of their murders. Lewis, now 35, was a 27-year-old hanging around a 15-year-old girl he had met at a local Wal-Mart, when... Full story »

Hurricane Katrina cited by police as excuse for failures in investigation Full story »

No-cost recognizance bonds were filed improperly, two judges say Full story »

A Chicago-based architecture and engineering company has been selected to review potential security problems at the St. Tammany Parish jail in the wake of a murder suspect's escape last month, officials said Thursday. During the next several weeks, PSA-Dewberry will work to analyze the construction and staffing of the jail to determine how Carlos Rodriguez escaped and what other... Full story »

That decision likely closes investigations into explosive charges of euthanasia at the Uptown hospital Full story »

She taped incriminating conversations with Mose Jefferson Full story »

After about three hours of deliberations Thursday, an Orleans Parish jury convicted Nathaniel Payton of manslaughter for the August 2008 killing of a man outside a French Quarter nightclub. Payton, 28, was originally charged with second-degree murder, accused of firing several times into the body of Cyril Roussel, 34, who lingered in a hospital bed for six months before dying of... Full story »

Slidell police are looking for a couple that has milked almost $2,000 in stolen baby formula from the Walmart on Natchez Drive since the beginning of the month. The two suspects, who were captured on store surveillance cameras, apparently stacked hundreds of dollars' worth of formula in the bottom shelf of their shopping carts on at least three occasions... Full story »