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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
PONCHATOULA — One of Tangipahoa Parish’s own is in need of the community to come together to help raise funds for a double lung transplant for a long-time member of law enforcement. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Johnson is getting on the list for a double lung transplant and there is a benefit happening on Saturday, June 21st to help his family get the money he will need.
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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office Gang Intelligence and Enforcement agents arrested two people allegedly associated with a violent gang known as “448” and are looking for two others. Plus, deputies seized multiple narcotics and what they say was a stolen 2019 Dodge Charger.
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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
LIVINGSTON PARISH — After noticing changes in the color and movement of one of her eyes, a little girl’s family is still processing a cancer diagnosis and the fact that their blue-eyed girl will lose her left eye. Breelynn, who is only 19 months old, was diagnosed just days ago with retinoblastoma, a cancer that develops in the retina and occurs mostly in young children. While the survival rate is high, there is also a high chance that the child will need their eye removed.
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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge Police officer is in critical condition after a crash involving his motorcycle that is being called an “intentional, targeted hit” on the officer. Sgt. Caleb Eisworth, a 23-year veteran of BRPD, was hit yesterday, June 16th on Prescott and Joor Roads near Greenwell Springs. Local unions are now coming together to help Eisworth’s family with bills incurred from his medical stay.
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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
LIVINGSTON — The bond for a man accused of a crash that killed Walker High School senior Blakeleigh Weems on New Year’s Day 2024, has been revoked and he’s now back behind bars. A Livingston Parish judge said that Shawn Robertson Jr.’s failed three drug tests. Robertson is being held in contempt of court for 18 months while awaiting trial.
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1 week ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
CENTRAL – Ten people were arrested recently in a state and federal crackdown on unauthorized vape products. A local smoke shop was among several businesses whose permits were revoked in the investigation. According to the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC), “Operation Vape Out” was a four-week statewide investigation among multiple state agencies and Homeland Security.
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2 weeks ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
CENTRAL — A local woman is celebrating her 100th birthday with friends and multiple generations of family this Saturday, June 14th. Violet Loretta Phillips Cutrer, born in Hawaii in 1925, has lived in Louisiana for more than 50, where she has watched her family grow and nurtured them with her tender love and flair for cooking. Born on June 12, 1925, in Onomea, Hawaii nearly 35 years before the archipelago became a U.S. state, Cutrer has seen a lot in her lifetime.
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2 weeks ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
GREENSBURG — St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s officials report that 10 St. Helena Parish Jail inmates and one other person have been arrested in connection with the death of an inmate that happened in April. On April 19, St. Helena Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a medical emergency at the jail that resulted in the death of Rogers B. Vernon, one of the inmates at the jail.
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2 weeks ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
BATON ROUGE — City Police and U.S. Marshals arrested Anthony Thomas Jr., an alleged member of a group, that calls itself ‘Youngin’s Taking Over (YTO).’ This group is affiliated with the Bleeda gang in Baton Rouge. Baton Rouge Police Special Investigations detectives began investigating Thomas in May after multiple complaints from residents concerned about his alleged involvement in criminal activities.
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2 weeks ago | 
unfilteredwithkiran.com | Shannon Thornton
PORT ALLEN — A Pointe Coupee-area drug dealer has been sentenced to 230 years in prison after being convicted earlier this year of running a large-scale, multi-drug trafficking operation in the parish. Elie T. Edwards was arrested in August 2022 following a seven-month undercover investigation involving multiple law enforcement agencies. On Feb.
