Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain faces a mandatory life sentence after it took five hours for a jury to convict him on eight charges of sex crimes involving several juveniles dating back to the 1970s. District Attorney Warren Montgomery says he hopes the verdict will bring Strain’s victims peace.
Strain will be formally sentenced on January 18th however the charges that he’s been found guilty of require a mandatory life sentence.
A Grand Jury indicts 49-year old Derwin Hamilton with 1st-Degree Murder, for burning his girlfriend and young nephew to death last summer. He faces life in prison if convicted. State Fire Marshal’s spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue the woman, though horribly burned, was able to tell first responders what happened.
The vote count is in for early voting ahead of this Saturday’s November 13th election and, as Dave Brannen reports, they are somewhat surprising.
And Ashley Sims the 38-year-old woman wanted in the shooting of her mother in in Opelousas area Friday has been taken into custody.