RIVER PARISHES CRIME NEWS

Tracking local crime and police news in New Orleans, Louisiana

Harry Carraby is accused of killing man after attempted drug rip-off on Monday.

The Hahnville man who was shot and killed Monday afternoon was participating in a drug rip-off of two ounces of marijuana, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

Photo providedMarcus Fleming, 22, was booked with second-degree murder.

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities have arrested a LaPlace man in connection with the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old man Sunday.

Preliminary findings of an autopsy on a LaPlace woman found dead Friday reveal that she had been strangled, the St. John the Baptist Parish coroner said.

An 18-year-old accused of two St. Rose slayings turned himself in Friday in Tangipahoa Parish after a 26-hour manhunt, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

An 18-year-old St. Rose man out on bond in an armed robbery charge is considered the prime suspect in two St. Charles Parish slayings, Sheriff Greg Champagne said Thursday.

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An 18-year-old St. Rose man out on bond on an armed robbery charge is considered the prime suspect in two St. Charles Parish murders, Sheriff Greg Champagne said Thursday.

Tameka Lee was supposed to be planning a surprise birthday party on Friday; instead, she was attempting to contain her grief after authorities say someone shot and killed her 26-year-old boyfriend in St. Rose.

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating the third homicide in the parish this year after finding a 25-year-old man shot several times early Friday morning in St. Rose.

Susan PoagU.S. Attorney Jim Letten addressses the media after State Sen. Derrick Shepherd pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering at the Hale Boggs Federal Courthouse in New Orleans Oct. 10.

Boy, was I pleased when Barack Obama won the election. At last, I thought to myself, we'll be rid of U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Letten is a newspaperman's nightmare. You can't laugh at him because he never says anything stupid. You can't blast him because he is scrupulously fair. He works tirelessly putting crooks in stir, but is a most amiable fellow. He is an absolute dead loss.

So, thanks for nothing, Mary Landrieu. Just because Letten has done an exemplary job during the Bush administration, the doyenne of Louisiana Democrats does not think he should be replaced.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies are searching for an armed robber who held up an employee inside one of LaPlace's most famous restaurants.

A Hammond man who authorities say raped a 4-year-old girl last year while visiting relatives in Destrehan pleaded guilty to forcible rape and was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.

A Hammond man who raped his 4-year-old stepdaughter last year while visiting relatives in Destrehan last year was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to forcible rape.

A Hammond man who raped his 4-year-old stepdaughter last year while visiting relatives in Destrehan last year was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to forcible rape.

State Police said a 47-year-old LaPlace man has died of injuries he suffered after his pickup veered into the path of oncoming traffic on River Road in Garyville.

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating the unexplained death Wednesday of a 59-year-old Edgard man.

A 7-year-old Destrehan girl told St. Charles Parish detectives that a stranger tried to lure her into his truck with candy Thursday evening, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The Associated PressSerial killer Ronald Dominique, 44, exits a Terrebonne Parish courtroom Tuesday after pleading guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder. Dominique is suspected of killing as many as 23 men in south Louisiana over a 10-year period.

A Terrebonne Parish man suspected of killing as many as 23 men in south Louisiana over nearly 10 years -- including six in St. Charles Parish -- pleaded guilty Tuesday to eight counts of first-degree murder.

The Jefferson Parish Council accepted Assessor Lawrence Chehardy's latest valuation of homes and businesses this morning, although some in the audience offered a mild protest.

Assessments climbed 29 percent in the the first full re-evaluation of property since 2004. The increase had Chehardy warning residents to expect a jump in their tax bills.

DANNY BOURQUE / THE TIMES-PICAYUNEThe Virginia Colony Avenue home in LaPlace where Cabrina Williams was arrested on September 7.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's officials are investigating the death of a 42-year-old woman who they say went into cardiac arrest while in the custody of Sheriff's deputies last week, a sheriff's office spokesman said Tuesday.

A 29-year-old man accused of robbing a Destrehan dry cleaner in January was booked Tuesday booked with a second robbery authorities say he committed on the same day.

A Norco man reported that a another man dropped his shorts at the intersection of Fifth and Barreca streets in Norco.

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies are searching for the person who shot a man just yards away from where a LaPlace high school football team was practicing Saturday morning.

St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff's deputies are searching for a suspect who shot a man from a car, just yards away from where a LaPlace high school football team was practicing Saturday morning.

A former St. Charles Parish 911 operator who allegedly sold crack cocaine outside the parish's emergency call center was sentenced to 70 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier Wednesday.

A Metairie man just off probation for holding up five banks is now charged with robbing five more.

The final remaining piece of the wrecked oil barge DM 932 has been taken out of the Mississippi River, officials said.

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Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-PicayuneBARGE PART II---As water pours out from its hull, the second half of the oil barge that was split in half by a collision with a ship on July 23 is slowly hoisted from the water near the upriver span of the Crescent City Connection on Sunday. The first half was raised the day before.

The son of a top St. John the Baptist Parish official was among the four boaters killed in a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on the Blind River, officials said.

The two-boat accident also injured three, and one unidentified man is missing and presumed dead, said Bo Boehringer, a spokesman for the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Two employees of a St. John the Baptist Parish sandwich shop were locked inside a freezer while authorities say two armed men robbed the store Wednesday.

No one was injured.

St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office Captain Roland Ladreyt was suspended for three days starting Monday after he allegedly fled the scene of a fender bender in Elmwood on May 17.

Peering into a flood-damaged Lower 9th Ward house that should have been empty, four officers found squatters.

St. John the Baptist Parish authorities are investigating a robbery in a LaPlace trailer court in which a 15-year-old boy was peppered with shotgun spray as he fled Thursday.

An impaired drivers checkpoint will be conducted today at an undisclosed location in St. Charles Parish by Louisiana State Police Troop B and the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office. The checkpoint will be conducted from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., weather permitting. It will focus on drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs. If found, these drivers will be arrested.

A St. Charles Parish woman was booked with attempted murder last week after she allegedly broke her ex-husband's cheekbone during a fight, according to the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting of a 17-year-old Garyville boy who was riding his bicycle just before he was struck.

An online video that featured two men brandishing weapons and threatening to kill someone they believed was a police informant led to the arrest of seven Destrehan residents on a variety of charges, St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne said Thursday.

Jermaine Joseph Weber was arrested in connection with the shooting.

Authorities have arrested a man in connection with a shooting in Garyville on Thursday that left one man dead and another hospitalized.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's deputies are on the scene of an apparent shooting near River Road in Garyville.

The mother of an 8-year-old Reserve boy, who died in April, pleaded innocent to accessory to murder and cruelty to a juvenile charges in court today.

With the savvy Internet knowledge of a seasoned teenager and the law enforcement background of an old hand, two detectives said they enter into another world looking for sexual predators on the Web.

Two St. Charles Parish men are in jail after being arrested Tuesday in connection with sexually assaulting a minor in two separate incidents.

A Reserve man indicted on first-degree murder charges in connection with the death of his 8-year-old stepson, bonded out of the St. John the Baptist Parish jail Tuesday night.

Victor's stepson, M.L. Lloyd, 8, of Reserve, died on April 1.

Errol Victor Sr., 42, was released on bond.

A preliminary examination hearing is scheduled to be held this morning for the Victor family, who have been indicted in connection with the death of 8-year-old M. L. Lloyd of Reserve.

St. John the Baptist Sheriff's Office is investigating the discovery of a man's body found in the Mississippi River with his hands and feet bound with tape, a spokesman said Tuesday.

A sanity hearing for a New Sarpy woman accused of burying her newborn baby earlier this year was postponed until June 24 by 29th Judicial District Judge Emile St. Pierre, after the prosecution objected that the defense attorney was not certified to be her sole attorney in a death penalty case.