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Category: Crime

10-year-old boy shot in the leg

June 21, 2018 Free PressCrime

A 10-year-old Monroe boy is in the hospital after being shot in the leg while in his own home. According to Monroe police, a shot was fired inside the home in the 1300 block of South 3rd Street and struck…

OPSO investigating vehicle burglaries in the Lakeshore Subdivision area

June 21, 2018 Free PressCrime

Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Investigators are currently investigating a series of vehicle burglaries that occurred in the Lakeshore Subdivision early on June 16, 2018. The vehicles were at residences on McCain, Hinke, Lula and Newberry streets. The suspects are believed to…

Burglar Suspect

Beaudoin says he had nothing to do with baby mama’s stabbing

June 13, 2018June 14, 2018 Free PressCrime, Events

A local man says it’s unfair that he is being associated with the stabbing of his baby’s mother and accuses the media falsely reporting that he once shot the victim.   Michael Beaudoin, of Monroe, took to   Log in…

Jalaysia Pleasant, Jessica Benjamin, Michael Beaudoin

Woman stabbed 55 times hanging on for life

May 31, 2018 Free PressBreaking News, Crime, Events

“There was so much blood that it looked like something out of a horror movie,” that’s the way Rebecca Benjamin described the scene where her niece Jessica Benjamin was stabbed by her a woman Monday.     Police arrested 21  …

Jalaysia Pleasant, Jessica Benjamin

Cashier confesses to $17,000 theft, friends say he’s misunderstood

May 3, 2018 Free PressEvents, Police Arrests

 Dionza Brown’s friends say he is being unfairly accused of stealing nearly $17,000 from a local Target Store. He says he did not get any of the money, but was just   Log in to read the remainder of this…

Dice game shooting tags Wright as suspect; 2nd shooting

May 3, 2018 Free PressEvents, Murders

  A man who is already on the wanted list of local law enforcement officers, is now on the list  for the third time, and he hasn’t been caught yet.  Deajohn Spencer Wright, of Monroe, is on the watch list of…

Deajohn Wright, Murders

Three-year-old throws tennis shoes at cop choking her mother

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Free PressEvents, Police Arrests

   A three-year-old told police investigators that she threw tennis shoes at a man who was choking her mother; the man was the mother’s boyfriend, a Monroe police officer.    Officer Jonathan Cardale McMillon was arrested on March 19 on…

Domestic Violence

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