According to the Louisiana attorney general's office, an account administrator for the Department of Health and Hospitals used a clever scheme to commit white collar crime. Authorities say she schemed to keep open a bank account intended for a past and paid for 2009...
Month: June 2013
Baton Rouge neighborhood proves magnet for murders
The area of North Sherwood Forest Boulevard has proved fatal ground for two Baton Rouge men recently. The old saying, "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place," was certainly proven wrong in two recent Baton Rouge tragedies where the specter of murder visited...
Simple Dice Game Turns Murderous
Sometimes all it takes to invoke irreversible tragedy is a simple game of chance -- where one of the players has a violent background and a penchant for harming another human being. Such was the case when Baton Rouge police responded to the scene of a dice game where...
Baton Rouge men targeted for federal bank fraud
Two businessmen from Baton Rouge have become the subject of scrutiny from federal investigators. Law enforcement officials say that the two business partners obtained multiple loans through fraudulent means. As a result of the investigation, the two men have been...
Brothers join long list of homicides in Baton Rouge
The old adage is that lighting is not supposed to strike twice in the same place. Baton Rouge police responded to 68 homicides in 2012. Yet in such a notorious war zone murder shouldn't be cruel enough to visit the same grieving family twice. However, that was not to...
Baton Rouge man indicted in 2007 double murder case
A 44-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted by an East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury last Thursday on two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the 2007 shooting and burning deaths of two individuals. Both of the victims in the incident had been shot and...
Baker man with lengthy criminal history faces new charges
A 33-year-old Baker man has been charged with aggravated battery and second-degree murder after he allegedly shot one man and assaulted another during a dice game on Saturday. The shooting took place after several men began arguing over money. The gunshot victim died...
Eight plead not guilty to drug charges
On Wednesday, eight individuals charged with federal drug and racketeering charges pleaded not guilty to those charges, which arose from an investigation into a Carencro strip club that was closed down back in December. Two other individuals had been charged along...
Supreme Court: go ahead and take DNA from criminal suspects
A Supreme Court decision issued on Monday lends support to the way criminal investigation is conducted both at the federal level and in many states. Currently, a number of states and the federal government permit the pre-conviction gathering of DNA evidence from...
NTSB recommends lower BAC limit for DUI charges
The National Transportation Safety Board--a federal agency that investigates transportation accidents--has begun to urge states to drop their legal drinking limit from .08 percent to .05 percent. The legal limit, as our readers may know, is the limit that determines...