Bess Casserleigh

4 days ago | wbrz.com | Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY - Documents show a family who built their home on the wrong lot received hundreds of thousands of dollars in a settlement for an abandoned oil well on that property. The WBRZ Investigative Unit brought you the story last week about Thomas Robertson and his brother's quest to right a real estate wrong.

6 days ago | wbrz.com | Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY — Thomas Robertson says a house was built without his permission on property he bought in 2011. What essentially boils down to human error led to the Mulder family building their home on Robertson's lot in 2018. "Usually you have encroachment upon someone else's property, sometimes by accident, by crossing the line, but here you have a whole, full-blown, grown house that was built upon my client's property," said Ken Fabre, who represents the Robertsons.

1 week ago | wbrz.com | Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY - A family in Zachary says someone else built a home on their land. Watch the WBRZ broadcast live on WBRZ+. The home owned by Steve and Alicia Mulder was built in 2012 on Heck Young Road on a tract of land called 3H-1. The problem is 3H-1 is owned by Alonzo Bell. It was bought by his brother Thomas Robertson in 2011. "The surveyor messed up but the city of Baton Rouge also gave the permits to build at that wrong location," said Robertson.

1 week ago | wbrz.com | Bess Casserleigh |Logan Cullop

ST. FRANCISVILLE - Parish President Kenny Havard used his time during the West Feliciana Parish Council meeting to address allegations surrounding a land deal at the center of a WBRZ Investigative Unit report. "I guess we'll just start with the accusations. I know that's the 800-pound gorilla in the room," Havard said after walking up to the podium.

1 week ago | wbrz.com | Logan Cullop |Bess Casserleigh

inNewsSource: WBRZST. FRANCISVILLE - The West Feliciana Parish Council threw its support behind a bill to abolish the West Feliciana Parish Port Commission after a handful of commissioners hurled allegations of wrongdoing at Parish President Kenny Havard. A resolution in support of State Rep. Jeremy Lacombe's bill to disband the commission passed through the parish council 3-2 on Monday night.