Pearlington
CRIME & SAFETY
Body found in woods in Pearlington
Hancock County Sheriff’s investigators are investigating a death after a body was found in the woods at Pearlington on Friday morning. “Some juveniles were playing in the woods and came across the body and reported it to the sheriff’s office,” Cmdr. Kris Robbins of the HCSO Criminal Investigation Division said Monday. “It’s under investigation, as to the cause of death and identity of the individual … . He or she has been sent to the crime lab to determine the cause of death and identity. Obviously, it’s summer time, and due to the heat and conditions outside and being in the woods, it made it difficult to determine who the individual is.
3 teens arrested for killing of Slidell woman in French Quarter early Sunday while on robbery spree
NEW ORLEANS — Kristie Gioe Thibodeaux, 43, may have grown up in St. Bernard Parish and migrated to her new home in Slidell, but her heart was in the French Quarter, where she gave tours as an employee of Crawl New Orleans. “She was a fixture in the community,”...
Louisiana man pleads guilty after intending to sell fentanyl to individual at Coast casino
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A New Orleans man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. Yancy Johnson, 45, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Gulfport. According to court documents, in 2023, an investigation was initiated into a possible drug trafficking organization operating in Louisiana...
‘Somebody will answer:’ Family of murder-suicide victim critical of NOPD response time
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As a Slidell father prepares to bury his oldest daughter, killed in an apparent murder-suicide, questions remain about police response to a murder-suicide. The shooting happened Saturday ((June 29) in the Leonidas neighborhood of New Orleans. Neighbors reported that a man, known for prior domestic violence...
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