Crime

Police say Johnathan Williams was taken into custody without incident at his home not far from where the incident occurred around 11:30 p.m.

Investigators with the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said they need the public’s help to locate a man with outstanding warrants.

Deputies with the Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office say a search for a man who ran away during a traffic stop has ended.

A judge on Monday (Jan. 30) denied two motions filed by the defense claiming the teens were too young to understand the crime and should have separate trials.

Gary Pierre, 24, is accused of vehicle and business break-ins on eight separate occasions between last Nov. 26 and Jan. 28

The West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a woman was hit and killed on a highway overnight.

One person was injured in a shooting in Clinton not long after the town’s annual Mardi Gras parade ended on Saturday, Jan. 28.

Arrest documents said that Lionel Harris, 30, faces charges that include attempted first-degree murder and felon in possession of a firearm.

Several squirrel monkeys from Zoosiana were taken from their habitat in a burglary, according to Broussard Police.

Hosea Sonnier, 18, was taken in to custody on a charge of attempted second-degree murder, according to arrest documents.

Kaivon Washington, one of the suspects arrested for the alleged rape of LSU student Madison Brooks, is now facing a first-degree rape charge in Livingston Parish for a separate alleged incident that took place in Walker in 2020.

A manhunt in Gonzales ended with multiple people taken into custody Thursday, Jan. 26, including two with warrants for crimes in Mississippi, according to investigators.

Officials from multiple agencies worked together to arrest a convicted sex offender who was wanted for multiple sex-related offenses in a neighboring parish, according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Noah Tomlin, 23 of Alexandria, was arrested for one count of sexual abuse of an animal.

The LDPSC has released information about the death of a pretrial inmate at Angola who was waiting to testify in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Multiple WLBT sources identify the retired officer as Mike Outzs. The incident includes a home invasion and struggle, a police chase, and the victim eventually being found bound and shot.

The Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another injured on Thursday, Jan. 26.

Woman and a 3-year-old boy listed in critical condition

Video footage of the arrest has been shown to Nichols’ family, but it has not been made public.

At least one person was injured in a shooting in a Baton Rouge neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 26, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Monday, Jan. 23, for attempted second-degree murder, other charges.

Three of the men accused of participating in or witnessing a sexual encounter involving an LSU student before her death bonded out of prison, according to records from the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.

A Livingston Parish grand jury has officially charged a Livingston Parish man with rape.

The man was found near Grace Temple Baptist church with two gunshot wounds.

A man accused of killing three homeless people was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, Jan. 26, for a hearing but it got delayed until March.

A two-alarm fire had crews battling flames at a warehouse in Baton Rouge on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

A house fire that happened Thursday, Jan. 25 has been ruled as arson, according to a spokesperson with the Baton Rouge Fire Department.

Detectives with the Baton Rouge Police Department say a man wanted for kidnapping has been arrested.

The Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the man suspected of killing two people wounding another in a shooting has turned himself in to authorities.

A man accused of kidnapping and raping a woman in early December is now behind bars.