Matt Bruce
Court Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Louisiana-based storyteller https://t.co/FAaro4hbd8
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5 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Matt Bruce
The gunman behind a string of Baton Rouge armed robberies, including one in which a teenager was killed, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to the fatal shooting and another stickup. Dayln Hynard was 16 when he committed a string of armed robberies in 2018, according to multiple indictments. He shot and killed 19-year-old Charvon Johnson during a Dec. 4, 2018, robbery behind an abandoned house on Jackson Avenue in the Fairfields neighborhood.
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5 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Matt Bruce
Three accused scammers who forged nearly 100 prescriptions to get promethazine, codeine, hydrocodone and other pharmaceuticals confessed to Medicaid fraud in federal court Thursday. Kevan Andre Hills, Devin Tyrone Stampley Jr. and Asia Deshan Guess stood before U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson during a hearing inside the U.S. Middle District Courthouse in Baton Rouge.
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6 days ago |
theadvocate.com | Matt Bruce
An East Baton Rouge jury found a man guilty of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice on Thursday for his role the killing of a 2-year-old girl. Phillip Kegan Gardner, 34, packed his unresponsive stepdaughter, Nevaeh Allen, into a suitcase and drove to a Mississippi swamp where he buried her body. Nevaeh was the daughter of Gardner's live-in girlfriend, Lanaya Brittany Cardwell. Authorities said Cardwell, 27, punched and beat the toddler while readying for work the morning of Sept.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Matt Bruce
A man who recruited two 16-year-old girls to be sex workers at Baton Rouge motels was sentenced to five years in prison Monday. Chad Armstead, 31, pleaded guilty to pornography involving a juvenile and two counts of human trafficking during a hearing inside the 19th Judicial District Courthouse.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Matt Bruce
Trials were set to begin Monday for several members of a largely dissolved north Baton Rouge street gang that was once heavily armed. Nine men ensnared in a slew of conspiracy indictments tied to the so-called Banks Town Mafia crew were to be tried on dozens of drug and weapons charges for their respective roles in the gang’s operation. But eight of the Banks Town Mafia members took plea deals in state court Monday.
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