Another top cop to leave the NOPD. See where deputy superintendent Paul Noel is going.

A Florida man who was found guilty of a Mandeville armed robbery faces nearly 200 years in prison, authorities said. Daniel Martinez was connected to the June 2021 Mandeville armed robbery after being involved in a fatal crash in St. Martin Parish three hours later, a news release from 22nd Judicial District Attorney Warren Montgomery's office said.

A car chase in Old Metairie ended with a crash near a preschool and one person arrested Thursday morning, Jefferson Parish authorities said. It was the second time in less than 12 hours that the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office reported that deputies had chased people in stolen vehicles from New Orleans. A chase Wednesday night near Cleary Avenue involved a deputy firing his gun at the armed occupants of a stolen vehicle.

The Orleans Parish coroner has identified the man killed at the edge of the Lower Garden District and other three other recent murder victims. Andre Richard was fatally shot last week at Erato and Constance streets, authorities said. He was 39. A homeless man named Adonta Hardy, 29, is accused...

The New Orleans Police Department has reassigned two officers to desk duty while investigating whether they violated agency policy, the department said Wednesday. Homicide detective Brittany Kimbrough and Sgt. Dylen Plazon are both under suspicion for associating with felons, which is prohibited by Police Department rules, a source with knowledge of the investigation said. The Police Department termed the inquiry a "criminal investigation" but would not specify what crime might have been committed.

A Jefferson Parish deputy shot at a man with a gun who fled a traffic stop in Metairie, authorities said early Thursday. Update: Another chase reported Thursday in Old Metairie. They believe he was injured but said they don't know if he was hit by a bullet or hurt in...

A man found dead earlier this month after a fire in a so-called mancave was actually fatally shot, according to new information from authorities. Larry Williams was 64, the coroner said. His death has been reclassified as a homicide, New Orleans police said Thursday. Williams was found the night of...

A man was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon in Gentilly, New Orleans police said. The shooting was reported to authorities around 2 p.m. in the 4500 block of Perlita Street (map). The man was shot multiple times and taken to a hospital, where police said he later died. His name and...

New Orleans police are investigating a homicide in the Lower 9th Ward. A male victim was shot in the chest in the 5300 block of Marais Street at around 4:02 p.m. Emergency Medical Services took him to the hospital, where he died. No other information was immediately available. Times-Picayune graphic....

A grand jury will decide whether three men and a 17-year-old should face more serious charges for their alleged roles in the rape of Madison Brooks, an LSU student from Madisonville who was abandoned near a Baton Rouge subdivision and fatally struck by a car after her assault. Police said...

Two teenagers who police think are responsible for robbing six Tulane University students at gunpoint near the Uptown New Orleans campus have been arrested. The Tulane Police Department said Tuesday that New Orleans police arrested the teens. The crimes occurred Jan. 15 on Hillary Street. Six students told police they...

District Attorney Jason Williams made a pitch Tuesday for more home and business surveillance cameras in New Orleans, saying a recent arrest shows how video recordings help law enforcers catch suspected criminals and strengthen prosecutions. “This technology is a game changer,” Williams said. “Please invest in security cameras. They have...

New Orleans police have arrested a woman in connection with a fatal shooting in the Warehouse District on Dec. 27. Cache M. Shelton, 26, was booked into Orleans Parish Justice Center early Tuesday on second-degree murder. Police believe Shelton and her boyfriend were in a hotel in the 300 block...

It’s unusual to interview a Carnival queen who’s carrying a sidearm. But Summer Turner isn’t your usual Carnival Queen. She’s a detective sergeant in the New Orleans Police Department, assigned to property crime in New Orleans’ busiest precinct, the 7th, in New Orleans East. On...

A 6-year-old girl was briefly taken Tuesday night when two men stole the vehicle she was in outside a Chalmette business, authorities said. She was later found safe in another abandoned stolen car. The St. Bernard Sheriff's Office said deputies are looking for the two men they believe to be...

The New Orleans coroner has confirmed the identities of two remaining victims in a triple homicide police discovered in the 1700 block of Gentilly Boulevard on Jan. 3, days after the slaying, due to a wellness check from a concerned neighbor. They are E’vonna Jackson, 14, and Wilmon Jackson, 43....

Mayor LaToya Cantrell met with an aide to President Joe Biden on Thursday to press for help with the city's crime problem, according to a spokesperson. Cantrell asked for the U.S. Marshals to deploy personnel to execute arrest warrants and the ATF to aid in the fight against gun violence, according to City Hall Communications Director Gregory Joseph.

The Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office has identified the female inmate who died after she was found unresponsive at the Jefferson Parish jail Friday as Renee Harold, 42, of New Orleans. An autopsy was performed Tuesday. But Harold's cause of death is still undetermined as the Coroner's Office awaits the results...

A man who had been convicted of the barbarous stabbing death of a 15-year-old New Orleans boy pleaded guilty to a lesser offense on Monday, closing out a case that had been crawling toward a second trial since the man’s conviction was vacated more than two years ago. A...

New Orleans police are asking the public for information about a Latvian man shot dead Jan. 17 in the Plum Orchard area of New Orleans East. Janis Gailis, 30, had been in New Orleans for several months when he was fatally shot near an abandoned apartment complex in the 4400 block of Reynes Street. At around 12:36 a.m. Jan. 17, a passerby found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and called police. Gaelis died on the scene.

A Orleans Parish magistrate judge ruled Monday that a man accused of beating two St. Charles Avenue riders in a racially motivated attack, blinding one of them, should remain jailed on $27,500 bond, though state prosecutors and defenders respectively sought to increase and reduce that bond. The suspect, for his...