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Category: Crime

Former Neville teacher pleads guilty

June 16, 2017June 17, 2017 Free PressCrime

Amos agrees to testify against school and government officials, must register as sex offender, gets supervised probation   Former Neville High School choir teacher Christian Amos appeared before Fourth Judicial District Court Judge Stephens Winters this week. Amos was arrested…

Criminal Activity May 24 – May 30, 2017

June 3, 2017June 28, 2017 Free PressPolice Arrests

Drug Smugglers According to a Ouachita Parish Sheriff deputy, on May 27, 2017, Gregory Perkins and Tasheaira Chaney entered Richwood Correctional Center to visit Keondric Chaney. After entering the visitation center, Gregory and Tasheaira sat down and waited for Keondric…

Deputy charged with third degree rape

June 1, 2017June 17, 2017 Free PressCrime

  On Monday, a Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s deputy was booked and charged with third-degree rape. Bradley Smith, 38 of Calhoun, was immediately terminated as a deputy on arrest. According to reports, an encounter between Smith and a 17-year-old female at…

Bradley Smith, Crimes, Rape

NAACP street rally focuses on violence

May 25, 2017June 18, 2017 Free PressMurders

ByBrea Joiner Free Press Staff     South 3rd Street residents and NAACP members gathered hands and open hearts last Thursday as they discussed the change that the Southside community needs to see.     About 25 people bowed their…

Monroe NAACP, Violence

Funeral services for 11 year old gunshot victim here

December 3, 1999June 17, 2017 Free PressMurders

At Lida Benton Elementary School Alicia Armstrong was an average student. She did her homework, laughed with her friends and enjoyed watching television, talking with friends and good times. Those Goodtimes ended abruptly on Sunday, November 21st when she was…

Young lovers stab each other with pencil, both arrested

November 3, 1999June 24, 2017 Free PressPolice Arrests

You’ve probably watched two children get angry and hit each other. “Take that!” says one. “Take that!” Says the other, hitting back. That’s the way children do it. It wasn’t funny last week when a lovers spat ended up with…

Battery, Domestic Violence

Judge rules officers must pay for killing wrong man

October 19, 1999June 24, 2017 Free PressCourts

Two Morehouse Sheriff’s Deputies and the Sheriff’s Department must may over $300,000 to the mother of youth killed in a bungled drug sting! Fourth District Judge ruled last week that two Morehouse Parish Deputies were negligent when they killed David…

Courts, Injustice, Police Brutality

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