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St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Murder Case
St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Murder Case October 28, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on October 22, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted 17-year-old Lionel Mack and 17-year-old Traveon Elbert, both of Slidell, on...
St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Fatal Hit-and-run
St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Fatal Hit-and-run October 28, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on October 22, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted 40-year-old Connie Estes of Slidell, on charges of Hit-and-run driving...
St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Rape Case
St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury Returns Indictment in Rape Case October 28, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on October 22, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted 58-year-old Michael Day of Vancleave, Mississippi, on charges of First degree rape...
COVINGTON MAN CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING YOUNG GIRL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COVINGTON MAN CONVICTED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING YOUNG GIRL October 21, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on October 16, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish jury found 40-year-old Winston Bradford Patterson of Covington guilty of oral sexual...
Slidell Man Sentenced to 57 Years in Prison For Attempting to Kill Estranged Wife
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Slidell Man Sentenced to 57 Years in Prison For Attempting to Kill Estranged Wife October 15, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on October 15, 2025, Judge Richard Swartz sentenced 47-year-old Calvin Ulyessa Brown of Slidell to...
Washington Parish Rape Trial Cut Short by Defendant’s Guilty Plea
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington Parish Rape Trial Cut Short by Defendant’s Guilty Plea October 9, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports the trial of 42-year-old Eliseo Carbajal Perez of Mexico for rape and other sexual assault charges was halted on September...
Jury Convicts Pearl River Man In Beating Of 83-year-old Mother
LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jury Convicts Pearl River Man In Beating Of 83-year-old Mother September 22, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on September 17, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish jury took 21 minutes to return a guilty verdict...
Inmate Sentenced to Life For Throwing Human Feces on Correctional Officers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Inmate Sentenced to Life For Throwing Human Feces on Correctional Officers September 17, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on September 12, 2025, Judge William H. Burris sentenced 37-year-old Tomarcus Porter of New Orleans to...
Man’s Foot Fetish Results in Sexual Assault Conviction
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Man’s Foot Fetish Results in Sexual Assault Conviction September 8, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on September 4, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish jury deliberated for two hours before finding 47-year-old Bobby Mendell Bester of...
Covington Man Found Guilty of Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Covington Man Found Guilty of Possessing a Firearm as a Convicted Felon September 5, 2025 District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on September 4, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish jury found 35-year-old Lesean Renard Jones of Covington guilty of...