District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Arthur James White, 50, of Mandeville, Louisiana, was sentenced to 60 years at hard labor without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for the sexual assault of a...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that on October 26, 2026, Brandon Justin Lee Williams, 38, of New Orleans, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Tara Farris Zeller to 56 years at hard labor for violent offenses committed against a mother and her children....

District Attorney J. Collin Sims reports that Lindsey M. Dykes, 32, of Franklinton, Louisiana, has been sentenced today to 50 years at hard labor without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence as a triple offender. Dykes was previously sentenced...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims reports that on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Tauj Taplin, 24, of Amite, Louisiana, and Quardaviaon White, 24, of McComb, Mississippi, were each sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, probation, or suspension of...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that on October 13, 2026, a St. Tammany Parish jury found 37-year-old Byron Jamal Watson, of New Orleans, Louisiana, guilty as charged of simple robbery following a trial before the Honorable Judge Scott Gardner. Assistant...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims reports that on Friday, October 9, 2026, a St. Tammany Parish jury found 22-year-old Deanthony Ashawn Williams of Slidell, Louisiana, guilty as charged on all counts in connection with a November 2022 fatal ambush shooting. The...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that today, Honorable Judge Tara Farris Zeller sentenced Kaelan Jackson, 25, of Slidell, Louisiana, to 10 years in prison, the maximum penalty allowed by law, following his felony Sexual Battery conviction by a St. Tammany...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that Brandon Justin Lee Williams, 38, of New Orleans, who was convicted last month of multiple violent offenses and subsequently fled justice, has been apprehended. Today, October 6, 2026, members of the United States...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims reports that on Friday, October 2, 2026, a Washington Parish jury found Tauj Taplin, 24, of Amite, Louisiana, and Quardaviaon White, 24, from McComb, Mississippi, guilty as charged of Second Degree Murder. The jury returned guilty...

District Attorney J. Collin Sims announces that on September 23, 2026, a St. Tammany Parish jury found Brandon Justin Lee Williams, 38, of New Orleans, guilty on all counts following a trial before the Honorable Judge Tara Farris Zeller. Williams was convicted of:...