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• High schooler tried to hire hitman to kill her ex-boyfriend, Baton Rouge police say Play Video

  February 15, 2022 10:51 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A teenager was arrested on Valentine's Day after she went online looking for someone to kill her ex-boyfriend, according to Baton Rouge Police. The department said the 14-year-old, a ninth-grade student at Liberty High, was arrested for solicitation of murder. She was booked into the East... more »

• Woman allegedly tried to have teens kill her ex's new boyfriend

  June 23, 2021 11:58 AM

  COVINGTON - A woman was arrested for allegedly soliciting four teenagers to kill her former girlfriend's new boyfriend. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office deputies went to a home in Lacombe June 5 after the homeowner called about his house being shot at. After investigating, detectives determined Mykia Tyson,... more »

• Accused drug kingpin charged in multiple Baton Rouge killings released from jail

  March 19, 2021 4:19 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The alleged leader of an extensive drug ring tied to multiple murders in the capital area has been released on bond. Martrell Harris, who was arrested in March on two counts of first-degree murder and a count of burglary, was released Monday. He is accused... more »

• Man will do ten years for restaurant murder-for-hire plot

  October 19, 2015 9:05 PM

  PORT ALLEN - A man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to twenty years for hiring a hit-man to kill two former business partners. Tommy Gioele paid the would-be-assassin $300 to kill the husband and wife he purchased Camile's Cajun Café from in 2007. Instead of killing the couple, the... more »