Bogalusa rapper JayDaYoungan, aka Javarious Scott, 27, faces the possibility of up to five years in prison after being indicted in New Orleans Dec. 3 on a federal gun charge
A 14-year-old has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl, the 18th Judicial Court in West Baton Rouge Parish reported on Friday, Dec. 3.
According to a spokesperson with EBRSO, deputies responded to reports of a juvenile male being shot at the intersection of Silverleaf Avenue and Myrtlewood Drive Thursday night.
DOC reported cell phones, chargers, shanks, drugs, homemade beer, and other contraband was confiscated during an early morning shakedown at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center.
The defense rested Thursday afternoon in the Melanie Curtin trial after announcing she will not take the stand in her own defense. Closing arguments in the case are scheduled to begin Friday at 9 a.m.
Jurors in the aggravated rape and video voyeurism trial of Melanie Curtin watched a nearly 20-minute video of Curtin allegedly taking part in the 2014 sexual assault of an unconscious woman.
Police say that Lonnie Pennington, 28, was wanted over the weekend for fatally shooting Andre Brown, 37, at the victim’s Hammond residence on Clinton Court Saturday afternoon.
The trial could potentially have some implications, in the separate cases against former high-ranking Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Dennis Perkins, and his former school teacher wife Cynthia.
It was learned late Sunday, Nov. 28, that "Lovey," the dog who was taken when her owner's car was stolen, has been found and will be heading back to the family.
A man injured in a shootout in a Glen Oaks neighborhood on Friday, Nov. 12, that resulted in his sister’s death has been released from the hospital and booked into jail.
Officials with the Baton Rouge Police Department say a 16-year-old is facing murder charges after allegedly fatally shooting a man and injuring another on Monday, Nov. 23.
Some folks in one Baton Rouge neighborhood are furious after a juvenile was caught on video allegedly ‘kicking in’ a few front doors of homes in the area, then running away.
A caretaker says her client was subjected to years of sexual abuse and trafficking after the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and law enforcement “dropped the ball” on investigating reports.
Justice of the Peace Suzan Baucum told Ruggs and his lawyers she was “comfortable with a higher level of monitoring” after a hearing about a delay in Ruggs providing a remote breath-alcohol test with a hand-held device on Nov. 13.
Troopers with Louisiana State Police are trying to find the car and driver involved in a hit and run crash that claimed the life of a motorcyclist on Saturday, Nov. 20.
A man has been arrested in connection to a deadly shooting on Toulon Drive, according to a spokesman with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.
