(Photo: Miles Moran | NOPD) New Orleans Police on Tuesday arrested a man who allegedly shoplifted several items from a Canal Street Walgreens store Friday.
Miles Moran, 28, of New Orleans was arrested after allegedly shoplifting several items from the store located in the 900 block of Canal Street, according to police.
Moran had previously been told not to return to the store by management for previous incidents.
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Eighth District detectives at 504-658-6080.
A man who was illegally carrying a loaded handgun and a blunt was arrested in the 400 block of Bourbon St. on September 9, according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD).
Demarkius Williams, 27, was apparently celebrating his birthday with a loaded Smith and Wesson .40-caliber handgun and marijuana in the French Quarter when he was arrested by NOPD Eighth District Task Force officers in the 400 block of Bourbon St. at approximately 10:51 p.m.
In addition to the handgun and the weed, the NOPD said it found a magazine filled with 14 rounds of live ammunition.
Williams was transported to the Eighth District station then booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center where he is accused of allegedly carrying a concealed firearm and illegal possession of marijuana.
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) is searching for a suspect in an alleged simple robbery that occurred in the block of 10 Canal St. near Harrah’s casino on September 7.
According to NOPD Eighth District detectives, the victim was approached by an unknown black male suspect (pictured above) at approximately 5:30 a.m. and the two relocated to an unknown street in the French Quarter, where the victim was assaulted by the suspect and several more unknown males.
The victim was knocked tot he ground and the suspects fled the scene with the victim’s belongings, according to the NOPD.
Anyone with information on the incident or the suspect is asked to contact NOPD Eighth District at 504-658-6090. They can also call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111 or 877-903-7867
The New Orleans District Attorney indicted Alexander Kirby, 33, for the May 15 fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend, who was a waitress at the Clover Grill on Bourbon Street.
Kirby is charged with second the second-degree murder of 33-year-old Shay de St. Germain, attempted second-degree murder of her new boyfriend, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, and one count of illegally carrying a concealed weapon. An Orleans Parish grand jury handed down the five-count indictment on August 29.
Assistant District Attorney Inga Petrovich presented the case to the grand jury.
If convicted, Kirby faces a mandatory term of life in prison. The attempted murder charge is punishable by 10 to 50 years, while each kidnapping charge carries a penalty of five to 40 years in prison.
The weapons charge is the only misdemeanor and comes with a six month jail sentence if convicted.
After the indictment was read, criminal District Judge Benedict Willard increased Kirby’s $600,000 bond to $1.26 million.
According to the district attorney’s (DA) office, surveillance video recordings backed up witness accounts that Kirby confronted the victim and her new boyfriend with a gun in the back of the Glover Grill located at 900 Bourbon St. shortly after midnight.
Kirby pointed the the gun at the other man, according to the DA, but de St. Germain stepped between them and a struggle ensued. The girl was shot once in the face at approximately 12:19 a.m. and pronounced dead shortly after being transported to University Medical Center’s emergency trauma center, according to the DA.
Louisiana State Troopers later found find Kirby with bloody hands and pointing the gun at his own head, threatening suicide, according to the DA. Kirby complied when ordered to drop the weapon and was arrested at the scene.
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) arrested two men in connection to an August 28 auto burglary on Esplanade Street.
According to the NOPD, officers were called to the 1000 block of Esplanade Ave. at 10:41 p.m. when they observed two men, identified as 55-year-old Eric Youngblood and 40-year-old Damien Brown, leaning inside a car and taking items from the inside.
Both Youngblood and Brown were arrested at the scene without incident, according to the NOPD, and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of simple burglary of an automobile.
Anyone with information on this incident or the individuals arrested in this incident is asked to contact Detective Ryan St. Martin at 504-658-6080 and or call Crimestoppers anonymously at 504-822-1111 and toll-free at 877-903-7867.
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