Being charged with a sexual crime is a serious offense that can have life-altering consequences. Sexual assault, sexual battery, rape, and solicitation are all crimes that can lead to being registered as a sex offender or even in jail time in some cases. With good...
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Lohan arrested for DWI charge in New York
Being accused of drunk driving can tarnish your reputation, and no case is ever as black-and-white as some would have you think. Those in Baton Rouge may follow celebrity news, like this recent report about Dina Lohan receiving a DUI charge in New York. According to...
Baton Rouge homicide suspect arrested for a deadly shooting
Baton Rouge residents may be unhappy to hear about a local shooting that led to one death, and also to hear that the man accused in the local homicide has been arrested and placed behind bars, even though the investigation is still ongoing. According to police, the...
DUI deaths drop in Louisiana
Those in Baton Rouge will be glad to hear that the number of deaths associated with drunk driving have been dropping. According to a new state report, the number of fatal crashes due to or involving drunk driving is decreasing, which is good for all drivers. In the...
Crime can be a family affair
Sometimes crime can be a family affair -- as in the recent local bust of a clan deep in the dangerous waters of Medicare fraud. No less than three members of a local family face a combined 24 felony charges, including racketeering and criminal conspiracies to commit...
Heroin can kill in more than one way
East Baton Rouge Parish had a total of five fatal heroin overdoses last year; thus far this year, the parish has seen 11 suspected heroin deaths. For all intents and purposed, the fatal injection of the street narcotic seems to be growing into the local murder weapon...
Medicare fraud can be costly for all
The owner of a south Louisiana home health care company and his chief nurse, who together masterminded a health care fraud scheme were both convicted recently, and on top of that their company was ordered by the court to pay back to Uncle Sam $17.1 million. As the...
Can video games provoke murder?
The eyes of all of Louisiana are focused on a case that unfolded in East Feliciana Parish when a child with no apparent motive allegedly shot to death his 90-year-old caregiver in a bizarre murder that has local police mystified. East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office...
Some drug cases are messier than others
Sometimes, cops catch the drug operator in the wide open, but in others the scenario can become more complex, especially in this case where cops chase a suspect all the way to his home and break in on the suspicion that drug offences are being committed. Such cases...
No statute of limitations on murder
Some criminals hide away for a long, long time in the mistaken belief that John Law will finally give up the chase. When it comes to murder the case may go cold, but it is never forgotten. A woman's body was found March 13, 2003, in a wooded area near her home. An...
