District Attorney Collin Sims announces that a St. Tammany Parish Grand Jury returned true bills today, indicting two individuals on multiple felony charges involving victims under the age of thirteen. Vernon Lee Taylor, Jr., 33, of Mandeville, Louisiana, was indicted...

District Attorney Collin Sims announces that on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 41-year-old Deontrel Jermane Jackson of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced to 99 years at hard labor. The sentence follows Jackson’s March 2026 conviction by a St. Tammany Parish jury for Aggravated...

District Attorney Collin Sims announces that on Friday, May 8, 2026, Amanda Lynn Flocke, 40, of Covington, Louisiana, a first-time offender, pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute 28 to 250 grams of Fentanyl. Flocke received a significant 30-year...

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, Lenin Antonio Munoz-Rivera, 34, of Slidell, Louisiana, was sentenced for the commission of multiple counts of sexual abuse involving a child. The Honorable Judge Richard Swartz sentenced...

Today, with the agreement of the victims’ families, Antonio Tyson entered pleas of guilty to two counts of first‑degree murder and one count of obstruction of justice in connection with the murders of Ms. Ruth Prats and Father Otis Young. Sentencing has been scheduled...

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on April 29, 2026, Joshua Michael Delaughter, 32, of Pearl River, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The mandatory life sentence was handed down by the Honorable Richard A. Swartz following...

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, a St. Tammany Parish jury found 48-year-old James Spikes, Jr., of Bogalusa, Louisiana, guilty of felony charges related to narcotics trafficking and illegal weapon possession. Following a trial...

District Attorney Collin Sims announces that today, a St. Tammany Parish jury found Willie Mack Cauley, 48, of Slidell, guilty of Filing a False Lien Against a Law Enforcement Officer. The trial was held before the Honorable Judge Tara Farris Zeller. The case was...

District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on April 22, 2026, Carrington Jackson, 34, of Angie, Louisiana, was sentenced to 20 years with the Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to Aggravated Second Degree Battery. Jackson was adjudicated as a fourth-time...

District Attorney Collin Sims announces that on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 18-year-old Keldric Harry of Bogalusa was sentenced to Life in prison for the January 2024 shooting that claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy. Following a unanimous guilty verdict returned by a...