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Baton Rouge Police Chief discusses 2021 plan to address local crime
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BATON ROUGE - Nearly one month into 2021, local authorities already find themselves consumed with investigations into homicides and multiple cases of domestic violence.
Despite such grim conditions, representatives of the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) maintain that the capital city can see a reduction in these sorts of crimes.
Ever determined to implement change, BRPD aims to use 2021 as a stepping stone towards a more peaceful future for the city.
During a Tuesday (Jan. 19) interview with 2une In, Police Chief Murphy Paul indicated how a reduction in crime can be accomplished, saying, One of the things that the Mayor has been pushing on the prevention side is we re going to have street teams.
Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer sought to dismiss rape charges against a Newport Beach surgeon and his girlfriend last year based on a review of evidence in the case that a team of senior investigators in his office later found to be flawed, according to an internal memo.
The investigators’ findings were outlined in a memo sent in July from Cmdr. Clint McCall to Chief Paul M. Walters, who leads the investigative bureau at the district attorney’s office. The Times reviewed a redacted copy of the memo, which was filed in court Thursday.
The top-to-bottom review of the case against Grant Robicheaux, 40, and Cerissa Riley, 33, ordered by Spitzer was “incomplete and contained inaccurate and misleading information,” according to the memo. Those shortcomings led prosecutors for Spitzer to make arguments in court for why the charges against the couple should be tossed out that “contained numerous unsupported allegations, misstatements, untruths, and factually wrong conclu
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BENNINGTON â Six staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Vermont Veteransâ Home, prompting new rounds of testing for staff and residents and contract tracing with those affected â all of whom were said to be asymptomatic prior to their positive test results this week.
Veteransâ Home CEO Melissa Jackson said Thursday that the six positive results were reported after the weekly COVID tests for all staff were taken earlier in the week.
She said none showed symptoms of COVID-19, and at this point it is unclear how the staff members contracted the disease.
BRPD Chief blasted for insurance info release BRPD chief By WAFB Staff | December 22, 2020 at 2:37 PM CST - Updated December 23 at 10:35 AM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The attorney for fired Baton Rouge police officer Siya Creel says she believes the police chief likely violated state and federal laws by publicly disclosing information about Creelâs private medical insurance. At a minimum, attorney Jill Craft suggests, it was highly improper. Craft says the information released by the chief was also inaccurate and âyet another example of the chiefâs thin-skinned and ill-fated judgment.â
BRPD Chief Murphy Paul, who did not immediately respond to Craftâs claims, has taken criticism for the firing of Creel, who is currently fighting cancer.