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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In a story that gives credence to the old saw, "What a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive," executives were caught up in a white collar crime that became far-reaching. Three executives who worked for convicted Ponzi-schemer R. Allen Stanford were...
A Baton Rouge woman fired up over road rage began a deadly racing duel with another car and now stands convicted of five counts of negligent homicide homicide in the case of five innocent victims who haplessly got in the way of the two careening vehicles. The other...
In a story that has gone viral, especially in the gay community, it has been charged that some dozen East Baton Rouge men were arrested since 2011 for sex offenses that should have been no longer on the books. Although sex in public and solicitation of "unnatural...
The storied "long arm of the law" was illustrated recently when an Orleans Parish man accused of rape who had managed a hefty cash bond was thrown back in the slammer after violating the conditions of his pre-trial release. Luck finally ran out for the 42-year-old as...
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