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7/31/2025
BRPD: Juvenile homicide arrests on pace to surpass last year
Posted 7:15 PM 7/31/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
BATON ROUGE - According to Baton Rouge Police, 15 percent of all of last year's felony arrests were teens 16 and younger.Baton Rouge Police Chief 'T.J.' Morse says his officers are arresting some of the same kids over and over.
17-year-old Eddie Monroe Jr. has been arrested for three (More)
8/1/2025
INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: Weeks after suspended judge returns, 1st Circuit overturns one of her convictions
Posted 7:19 PM 8/1/2025 by WBRZ Staff
BATON ROUGE — A state appeals court set aside a second-degree murder conviction Thursday, finding that a judge used "speculation" rather than reason to determine who shot and killed a young father along Prescott Road in 2021.
The judge was Eboni Johnson Rose, who returned to the (More)
7/25/2025
Inmate beaten while handcuffed files suit, alleges cover-up by several DOC employees
Posted 2:31 PM 7/28/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
ST. GABRIEL - An inmate at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, who was beaten while handcuffed, filed suit in federal court against the officers he says beat him.
As the WBRZ Investigative Unit (More)...
7/24/2025
Family fighting nearly 20-year-old non-unanimous murder conviction of man who claimed self-defense
Posted 9:54 PM 7/24/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge family is fighting what they consider the wrongful conviction of their loved one nearly 20 years ago.
In 2007, Cori Williams was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Raymond Jones. He was sentenced to life without parole.
Jones and (More)
7/22/2025
West Fel. Parish President Kenny Havard found guilty of simple battery, given citation
Posted 5:46 PM 7/22/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
ST. FRANCISVILLE - The WBRZ Investigative Unit has learned that West Feliciana Parish President Kenny Havard was found guilty of simple battery for hitting another man in the face.
According to Chuck Spillman, Havard assaulted him before a parish council meeting in December.
(More)...7/21/2025
WBR constable who spearheaded 'illegal' ticketing operation resigns, special election called
Posted 5:42 PM 7/21/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH - The man in charge of an "illegal" school zone ticketing program in the Brusly and Addis area has resigned from the elected position.
Ward 2 Constable Ron Tetzel, under Justice of the Peace Thomas Southon, ran a radar gun in school zones along LA-1 and issued (More)
7/17/2025
INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: Zachary PD's attorney says blurred body cam video provided to WBRZ was 'a mistake'
Posted 5:42 PM 7/17/2025 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop
BATON ROUGE - After lots of back and forth with the Zachary Police Department, the WBRZ Investigative Unit has obtained the un-redacted body camera video of a suspected (More)
7/11/2025
Attorney weighs in on blurred-out Zachary PD body cam footage given to Investigative Unit
Posted 11:03 AM 7/14/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
ZACHARY - An attorney weighed in on issues with the body-cam footage provided to WBRZ after a months-long investigation into how Zachary Police handled a drunken-driving (More)
7/10/2025
Newly-released body cam footage from night of fiery BRPD unit crash raises questions about Zachary PD's investigation
Posted 8:53 PM 7/10/2025 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop
ZACHARY - Newly-obtained body camera footage from the night Baton Rouge Police officer Loren Gaskin totaled his unmarked police unit in a head-on collision in (More)
7/9/2025
WBRZ INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: St. Gabriel police chief questions allegations surrounding slain captain
Posted 6:26 PM 7/9/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
ST. GABRIEL - St. Gabriel Police Chief Kevin Ambeau disputed claims made by the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office about the circumstances which led to Captain Devin Boutte's murder.
"I saw an officer who was butchered up beyond recognition. I didn't even recognize him. That's how bad this (More)
7/8/2025
AG's office back in investigation of slain St. Gabriel police captain at Iberville sheriff's request
Posted 7:01 PM 7/8/2025 by Bess Casserleigh
ST. GABRIEL - Following the revelation of potential corruption by the late St. Gabriel Police Captain Devin Boutte, Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi is once (More)
7/7/2025
Sheriff says St. Gabriel officer found dead had supplied drugs to killer to sell in community
Posted 4:41 PM 7/9/2025 by The Investigative Unit
ST. GABRIEL — A St. Gabriel police officer found dead at his home had been in a relationship with his accused killer and had supplied him with marijuana and methamphetamine to sell in the community, Iberville Parish Sheriff Brett Stassi said Monday.
Devin Boutte was found dead early (More)
