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• Elayn Hunt Correctional cadet booked for trying to smuggle drugs, phones

  March 7, 2017 12:54 PM

  BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections fired a corrections cadet for trying to smuggle drugs and cellphones into the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center. St. Gabriel Police detectives arrested 29-year-old Jomar Jackson with felony introduction of contraband. Jackson tried to avoid a routine search... more »

• Lawmaker shelves bill to give police access to locked phones Play Video

  May 2, 2016 4:37 PM

  BATON ROUGE- A proposal to allow criminal investigators with a court order to unlock homicide victims' cellphones has gotten stuck in a House committee, after lawmakers split on the idea. The bill, called the Brittney Mills Act, is meant to solve the murder of the woman for which its named... more »