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CRIME & SAFETY
Kiln mom and daughter injured in lightning strike
A Kiln mother and daughter were injured last week when lightning struck their home while they were both holding plugged-in cell phones. “I was laying in my bed and it was lightning outside and I had my phone plugged into the wall and lightning hit my house and came through the wall and through the phone charger into my phone and electrocuted me,” Kathryn Underwood-Teck said Tuesday.
Pearl River area recreation district employee stole $25K, sheriff says
A former secretary at a Pearl River-based public recreation district has been arrested and accused of stealing more than $25,000, authorities said. Brittany Ward, 36, was booked on a warrant Wednesday for theft over $25,000 and forgery, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office said. Ward is accused of stealing $25,277 from St. Tammany Recreation District 7.
Three Arrested on Narcotics Charges
Three Covington-area people have been arrested on narcotics charges following two unrelated investigations. On the morning of June 28, detectives with to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office Proactive Enforcement Unit and the Narcotics Unit conducted a traffic stop on a Hyundai Elantra on Highway 437 near River Road in Covington.
Slidell man sentenced to 92 months for drug and weapons violations
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on July 11, 2024, JAMILE ROBINSON (“ROBINSON”), age 32, a resident of St. Tammany Parish, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to 92 months of imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and a $200 mandatory special assessment fee on two-counts of the indictment pending against him.
Sheriff urges residents to lock car doors following recent burglaries
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith is urging residents to lock their car doors following a rash of vehicle burglaries which occurred last week in the Slidell area. Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Burglary Unit have arrested two Mississippi men in connection with the more than 10 unlocked vehicles that were burglarized last week in the Bluffs neighborhood near Slidell.
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