A Jefferson Parish judge on Monday (June 16) sentenced former Grand Isle town councilman Elgene Gary Sr. to 45 years in prison for his conviction of molesting two juvenile girls on the barrier island. He abused one of the victims decades ago, when she was a child. Gary, 81, who also was a Grand Isle …
A Jefferson Parish jury deliberated for 1 ½ hours on Friday night (June 13) in finding Sean Barrette guilty of shooting at the occupants of four vehicles traveling on East Jefferson roadways during a 2-week period in June 2019, killing three men. Barrette, 28, of Metairie, is guilty as charged of two counts of first-degree …
One man was sentenced to prison and another was convicted on Thursday (June 12) for sexually abusing children in unrelated cases filed in Jefferson Parish’s 24th Judicial District Court. Oscar Reyes Oscar Reyes, 63, of Kenner, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his conviction of sexually abusing a 9-year-old child. Reyes was …
A Jefferson Parish judge on Thursday (June 12) sentenced Thomas Welty to 30 years in prison for his conviction of sexually abusing two teenaged girls, both of whom were given illegal narcotics so he could control them. Welty, 46, a former Metairie resident, was convicted by a jury on May 27 of second-degree rape and …
A Jefferson Parish judge on Friday (May 30) sentenced Larry Davis to 120 years in prison for his conviction of robbing four people at three businesses in one day, including a drug store in Metairie and two discount retail stores on the West Bank. A jury on May 14 deliberated for 25 minutes in convicting …
