21+ hour, 40+ min ago   (635+ words) You get a call or text message from someone who says they’re with the local jail or sheriff’s office, telling you to send money to bond a family member out of jail. Sheriff’s offices around the state have warned of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (241+ words) BATON ROUGE — A man arrested in August in two sexual assaults, in which he met the victims at Perkins overpass bars, has been accused of a third attack. The victim contacted police after she learned that Elijah Clyde had been…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (153+ words) PLAQUEMINE — Investigators arrested a Rosedale man and seized more than 600 grams of fentanyl Monday in a joint operation involving the Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office and Baton Rouge Police Department. Deontrae Jawaun Beckwood, 27, was booked with possession of more than 250 grams…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (437+ words) BATON ROUGE — A 19-year-old woman, who police say was dealing drugs, was fatally shot during a July robbery by someone pretending to be a customer, East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office records show. An 18-year-old man has been arrested in Tre’asure…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (544+ words) GEISMAR — It’s now the fifth day a 22-year-old pharmacy technician has been in a hospital fighting a fractured skull, neck and arm, along with a brain bleed. While Makayla Hopkins continues to improve, the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office is actively…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (138+ words) COVINGTON — St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a 28-year-old Covington man in connection to a September 2025 overdose death. James Roberts Jr. was booked Aug. 14 with second-degree murder. The sheriff’s office said a woman identified only as a 38-year-old who…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (220+ words) BATON ROUGE — A woman accused of selling drugs that led to an overdose death was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 18, on a murder charge. Montronnik Johnson, 27, was booked with second-degree murder in the July death of Austin Cruz at his home on…...