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. Attorney General Jeff Landry says he’s disappointed by Greenhouse’s early release but Legal analyst Franz Borghardt says…
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The other Marskville deputy involved in the shooting, Derrick Stafford, is serving a 40-year sentence for a manslaughter conviction.
A female is recovering after being shot and being dumped off on the side of Interstate 10. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola says the suspect fled, but was shot by Mississippi police and was brought back to Baton Rouge to be treated for his injuries.
“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 Daige says the taskforce included Sherriff’s departments from nearby parishes and State Police and ran for about two years unearthing the drug trade.
The task force secured over a million dollars in street value worth of drugs during the two-year operation.
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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