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New Orleans police officer arrested on hit-and-run charges

A veteran New Orleans police officer was arrested Monday by the agency’s internal affairs unit and booked on hit-and-run charges.

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New Orleans police officer arrested on hit-and-run charges

A veteran New Orleans police officer was arrested Monday by the agency’s internal affairs unit and booked on hit-and-run charges.

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New Orleans police officer arrested on hit-and-run charges

Hit man who killed Kim Groves in 1994 sentenced to life in prison

The hit man who killed Kim Groves’ in 1994 at the behest of infamous New Orleans police officer Len Davis was sentenced Wednesday morning to serve the rest of his life in federal prison .

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New Orleans police officer arrested on charges of driving drunk, hit and run

A New Orleans police officer was arrested and booked Sunday night on charges of drunken driving after he crashed into three vehicles in three different places and continued to drive, according to the police department.

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New Orleans police officer arrested on charges of driving drunk, hit and run

Witnesses describe shooting of civilian after Hurricane Katrina outside Convention Center

A few nights after Hurricane Katrina, a New Orleans police officer shot a man in front of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center immediately after the same officer’s car struck the man, several witnesses to the incident testified Tuesday in a federal trial.

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Cooling down the crime hot spots in New Orleans: An editorial

George Capowich, the former police officer and Loyola University criminologist who will be training New Orleans police in a reincarnation of its community policing strategy, made an important point Tuesday about crime and geography.

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Man arrested for attempted first-degree murder of New Orleans police officer

New Orleans police early Sunday booked a man with attempted first-degree murder of a police officer after he allegedly tried to hit an officer with a van.

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Runoff election to decide Jindal support on BESE

A Florida man’s life was saved thanks to a quick-thinking police officer who used social media to keep him from committing suicide.

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Runoff election to decide Jindal support on BESE

NOPD officer accused of writing bogus seat-belt tickets pleads guilty

A 22-year veteran New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Monday to four counts of malfeasance, receiving a five-year suspended sentence for writing hundreds of phantom seat-belt violations while allegedly racking up overtime pay.

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NOPD officer accused of writing bogus seat-belt tickets pleads guilty

Man pleads guilty to punching, killing off-duty Gretna police officer last year

A 21-year-old local man pleaded guilty Tuesday and will serve less than three years in prison for punching and killing an off-duty Gretna police officer on Bourbon Street last summer, according to court records.

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