The former Marksville deputy marshal sentenced to 7.5 years for his role in the 2015 fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy during a chase is out of prison after serving less than two years. Brooke Thorington has the story…
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries raises the nutria bounty from $5 to $6 per tail for the upcoming season in hopes it will entice hunters to step up the fight against the invasive species. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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Former Marksville Deputy Marshal Norris Greenhouse Junior, sent to jail for his role in the shooting death of a six-year-old boy during a 2015 car chase, is a free man after serving less than two years of a 7.5 year sentence for negligent homicide and malfeasance in office. Legal analyst Franz Borghart says inmates convicted on non-violent charges typically do not serve their entire sentence
The state department of corrections says Greenhouse earned the early release by completing pre-release and anger management programs, earning an associate degree and time served. Attorney General Jeff Landry says he’s disappointed by Greenhouse’s early release but Borghart says…
The other Marskville deputy involved in the shooting, Derrick Stafford, is serving a 40-year sentence for a manslaughter conviction. While Greenhouse will remain on community supervision through 2025. Borghart says some might be disappointed by his early release, but state law allows for it…
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A female is recovering after being shot and being dumped off on the side of Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola says police responded to call about a woman walking on the interstate near the I-110 Split.
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Coppola says the suspect, 28-year-old Gerry Byrd, fled to Mississippi where he was shot by law enforcement in the Woodville area after they were alerted he was in a parking lot, waving two semi-auto pistols in the air.
Cut 7 (10) “…officer-involved shooting.”
Coppola says the suspect was brought back to Baton Rouge to be treated for his injuries.
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“Operation Murder Gang Meltdown”, a cross agency narcotics taskforce in Terrebonne Parish is nearing an end after the arrests of 18 suspects and the seizure of significant amounts of drugs.
Terrebonne Parish Chief Deputy Terry Daigre says the taskforce has made some major seizures.
Hakeam Drane, Spencer Round Jr., and Early Johnson were some of the suspects recently busted in the investigation.
Dagire says the taskforce included Sherriff’s departments from nearby parishes and State Police and ran for about two years unearthing the drug trade.
And the name of the operation wasn’t just pulled out of thin air. Daige says it drew its catchy title from the group at the center of this particular drug bust.
The task force secured over a million dollars in street value worth of drugs during the two-year operation.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is raising the bounty on nutria tails for the season that starts November 1st. LDWF biologist Catherine Normand says the bounty program has been in place since 2002, and has resulted in reducing the toll the invasive species of rodent has taken on the wetlands.
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Normand says the money is provided by the feds and the raise comes with the hope that the higher bounty will entice more catches, getting numbers back to average.
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The rodent is estimated to have destroyed over 14,000 acres of wetlands this past season.
At one point, there was a fur market for the nutria, and the state didn’t have an issue with rodents causing damage to the wetlands because of the number of hunters keeping the population down and keep them from overgrazing.
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The rodent is credited with destroying around 82,000 acres of wetland in 2003, but about 5 years ago that was cut down to 4000 acres.