The 50-year-old Gonzales man accused of killing his wife in Ascension Parish Wednesday has been accused in three other cases involving people being seriously hurt or killed, according to records reviewed by the WAFB I-TEAM.
District Attorney Hillar Moore is weighing in, hours after a special grand jury decided four officers would face formal charges tied to potential corruption within the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Thomas Morse and East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome shared statements following the indictments of four BRPD officers.
Many people are wondering what took so long for an AMBER Alert to be issued as the search for two missing girls from Tangipahoa Parish played out on Thursday, June 13, 2024.
The WAFB I-TEAM has learned Jace Boyd, the man who shot and killed Danny Buckley outside Trader Joe’s in Baton Rouge, could face even less time behind bars than the 18 months a judge sentenced him to in court Tuesday.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and the city-parish after a man took his own life during a mental health episode that led to his arrest in May 2023.
The WAFB I-TEAM has learned a special grand jury could decide, any day now, whether five BRPD officers will face formal charges tied to an alleged beating and coverup from 2020.
A special grand jury has been convened to exclusively review criminal accusations against four Baton Rouge Police officers who were arrested last year.
A woman left her car at a dealership back in January, hoping to get it repaired but thieves had other plans and stole the car right off the lot in the middle of the night.
In rare form, District Attorney Hillar Moore wants to set the record straight a day after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed a curse-filled rant from judge Eboni Johnson-Rose.
Prosecutors with District Attorney Hillar Moore’s office recently found themselves before a district court judge who accused the DA’s office of just wanting to “stick every ni**er in jail,” according to a court transcript of the April 2024 proceeding inside the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge.
Pictures obtained by the WAFB I-TEAM speak for themselves, showing the conditions inside an apartment where a woman’s special needs son was allegedly neglected.
A fifth officer is now caught in the crosshairs of a special investigation into an alleged excessive force case at the Baton Rouge Police Department’s First District Precinct.
The WAFB I-TEAM has uncovered a potential loophole in the Baton Rouge Police Department’s body camera system that could allow officers to review their video and possibly hide evidence.
In September of 2020, Baton Rouge police officers swarmed an abandoned lot on Chippewa Street where rapper NBA YoungBoy and a dozen other men were filming a music video and allegedly showing off guns.
A parent at Brusly High School has been banned from the property indefinitely following a racist road rage incident that spilled onto the school’s property last month.
A man who was allegedly smacked in the face with a chair while incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison is suing the deputy accused of hitting him as well as the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office (EBRSO) exactly one year after the alleged incident.
Defense attorneys, for the first time Friday, visited the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) interrogation facility known as the “Brave Cave where suspects were allegedly interrogated and illegally strip-searched by officers.
A teacher will return to work at Central Middle School in Gonzales after 23rd Judicial District Attorney Ricky Babin chose not to move forward with a criminal case against her.
A newly released report from Inspector General Stephen Street details the state’s mishandling of a child welfare case that would ultimately end in tragedy.
District Attorney Hillar Moore expects his office will need several months to decide whether to bring criminal charges against multiple Baton Rouge police officers accused of covering up a 2020 use of force incident.
A Baton Rouge Police Department officer is no longer working as a school resource officer after being accused of strip searching and sexual battery of an 11-year-old inside the Brave Cave.
As he announced his bid to become the next mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish, former state lawmaker and Biden administration official Ted James zeroed in on the Brave Cave.
The troubling new allegations pouring out of the Brave Cave this week— that officers strip searched a mother and her three boys— only adds to a growing list of complaints that all center around one policy within the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Nearly one year after bounty hunters showed up, surrounding Jophiner Kelly’s Baton Rouge home and an agent armed with a large gun went off the rails, the Louisiana Department of Insurance has taken action.
A juvenile is believed to be the person responsible for intentionally setting a fire inside of the Walmart store on Burbank Drive in Baton Rouge last weekend, the WAFB I-TEAM has learned.
The latest internal probe comes less than 24 hours after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the new allegations tied to a newly filed federal lawsuit and Internal Affairs complaint.
The Baton Rouge Police Department is responding one day after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed new allegations that an 11-year-old boy was sexually assaulted last summer when he was taken to the Brave Cave, a secretive facility where certain people in BRPD custody claim they were beaten and illegally strip searched.