A Louisiana FBI agent has been arrested on multiple sexual misconduct charges, including indecent behavior with children. David Harris, 51, who was assigned to the FBI’s New Orleans field office, faces charges in three Louisiana parishes, the Louisiana State Police said. He was arrested in Ascension Parish by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations …
A 15-year-old boy is dead after a juvenile on a joyride in a stolen SUV with four other children passengers crashed in Louisiana’s St Landry Parish just outside Opelousas. The driver fled the scene on foot, and investigators are searching for him. Louisiana State Police said they briefly pursued the Ford Explorer at about 2 …
Police in southern Louisiana are looking for a 53-year-old man they say is responsible for the death of an infant found in a car abandoned near a bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway Saturday afternoon. The St Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office said it has obtained a warrant for the arrest of Ervin Melancon on a charge …
Crews searching along the Mississippi River for missing Louisiana State University student Kori Gauthier found something else instead this week: a passenger van riddled with bullet holes. Officials said they didn’t believe it was connected with Gauthier’s disappearance. Her wrecked car was found early Wednesday near an I-10 bridge over the river in Baton Rouge. The person involved in the crash said the car was empty when he struck it, although police found her cell phone and wallet inside. The United Cajun Navy, whose crews found the van in the river, said they took some photos and passed them along to Baton Rouge police.
A 5-year-old girl sleeping in the car with her mother and her mother’s boyfriend on Wednesday was awakened “by a loud bang” — what police say was the sound of Jonathan Bryant shooting Raemel Richardson. Richardson’s body was found Thursday afternoon by a group of children on the banks of the Mississippi River, 40 miles …
A Louisiana mother wanted for kidnapping her two sons in Louisiana and abandoning them in Florida has turned herself in, WGNO reports. Shawntel Heck, 38, contacted the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida on Friday and told them she was tired of running and wanted surrender, the station reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Heck …
Two boys reportedly abducted from Louisiana Tuesday afternoon by their biological mother, who stole their father’s car while the boys were in it, have been found safe in Florida, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. They’re still looking for the mother, 38-year-old Shawntel Heck, and have a warrant out for her arrest on charges …
Firefighters responding to a mobile home fire found a decomposing body inside, and now the owner of the trailer has been arrested, KSLA reports. The Louisiana Office of the State Fire Marshal said that Ronald Griffith, 58, had been living with the body at his trailer in Natchitoches for months. Investigators also found a dog’s …
Louisiana police on Friday arrested a man they say killed a couple he was living with and hid their bodies, WAFB reports. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said that Iva Jane Travis, 54, and Lewis “Payton” Travis, 55, had not been seen or heard from since Valentine’s Day but weren’t reported missing until Thursday. While …
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, …
Skeletal remains found Thursday in Louisiana belong to a pregnant Texas woman not seen since the end of November, Beaumont Police said Friday. Kayla Nicole Rice, 33, was reported missing in December by out of state relatives, who said she was six months pregnant at the time. Rice’s body was found Thursday in a shallow …
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 …
