Louisiana law enforcement are looking for an escaped inmate who pepper sprayed a deputy and stole her patrol vehicle. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said that Leon Ruffin to a hospital around noon on Sunday after he reportedly had a seizure. A deputy went to the facility to pick him up and return him to …
A Louisiana woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend’s 6-year-old daughter and then leaving the child’s body stuffed into a plastic bucket on her biological mother’s front yard. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said that the child’s father reported his girlfriend and youngest daughter missing at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday when he woke up …
Three people are dead and two more wounded at a Louisiana gun range after a man took offense to be being told his unholstered, loaded gun should be unloaded until he was actually on the range. The man argued with the clerk at Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie and shot two victims inside the establishment, …
A 57-year-old Louisiana man has been arrested and charged with keeping a woman bound in a locked closet for four days, bringing her out to beat and rape her repeatedly, NOLA.com reports. Darryl Vinson has been charged with attempted second degree murder, first degree rape, aggravated kidnapping, false imprisonment while armed with a weapon, and …
Authorities in Louisiana say a kids’ baseball coach is facing criminal charges related to the alleged sexual battery of multiple juveniles. According to WDSU, 49-year-old William Carter Mehrhoff is accused of molesting a boy he met through his volunteer position at the Lakeshore Playground. That boy was 10 years old when the alleged abuse began …
