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• Movie-prop money circulated at BR store

  November 15, 2017 1:05 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Detectives are unsure of how some fake money ended up on the streets of Baton Rouge, but are confident a woman caught with it was too confused to know what she had. Earlier Wednesday, the sheriff's office posted an image from an area grocery store's surveillance... more »

• Father and son team charged in gas skimmer bust in Iberville Parish Play Video

  February 10, 2017 11:31 AM

  PLAQUEMINE – Two Florida residents were charged with monetary instrument abuse after deputies busted the largest gas skimmer operation in Louisiana history. Thursday, Iberville Parish Sheriff's deputies made a traffic stop on a father, Serafin Fuentes, and son, Juan Fuentes, both from Miami. During the investigation, deputies discovered five... more »

• Credit card skimmers on EBR, Ascension gas pumps

  January 28, 2016 3:11 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A task force involving the State Department of Agriculture, U.S. Secret Service and local sheriff’s offices are investigating a recent outbreak of incidents involving credit card skimming devices installed at gas pumps throughout the state. Since June 2015, the task force has found and disabled a... more »