News
Find here an archive of the D.A.’s Press Releases and other News.
District Attorney’s Criminal Division Chief Receives Top FBI Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 15, 2016 Collin Sims, Criminal Division Chief under District Attorney Warren Montgomery, received the 2016 FBI Directors Award Thursday (Sept. 15) in Washington, D.C., for his work as part of a team that investigated and prosecuted the...
St. Tammany Parish School System Makes Donation to Flood Victims
Congratulations to the St. Tammany Parish school system, which collected more than $132,000 in money and gift cards and more than 55 pallets of school supplies (worth an estimated $200,000) to assist families and schoolchildren affected by the recent historic flooding...
D.A. and Parish Government Ask Judge to Rule in Lawsuit
Click on the links below to see the motions for summary judgment, filed by District Attorney Warren Montgomery (the plaintiff) and jointly by St. Tammany Parish President Pat Brister and the Parish Council (the defendants), all asking the presiding judge to rule...
Judge Finds Pearl River Man Guilty of Second-Degree Murder
COVINGTON—Billie Rawson, Jr., 42, of Pearl River, was found guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the stabbing death of his father nearly three years ago. District Judge William J. Burris announced the verdict after a two-day trial in his courtroom without a...
District Attorney’s Office Receives Grant to Study Veterans Court
COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery’s Office has received a grant to study the feasibility of implementing a specialty court that would steer some military veterans who have committed crimes to drug, mental health, and other treatment, instead of jail. The...
D.A. Warren Montgomery’s Response to Councilman Michael Lorino’s Comments
At the St. Tammany Parish Council meeting last night (Aug. 4), District 4 Councilman Michael Lorino, Jr., made a comment regarding the civil litigation between parish government and the District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Lorino said in part “it takes two to mediate…and...
Bogalusa Man Gets 50 Years in Prison for Robbing and Shooting Man
COVINGTON—Demetric Q. Sowell, 24, of Bogalusa, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence for attempted first degree murder, armed robbery, and armed robbery with a firearm. District Judge Richard A....
Slidell Man Gets 60 Years in Prison for Manslaughter
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2016 COVINGTON—A St. Tammany Parish judge sentenced Michael G. Smith, Jr., 24, of Slidell, to 60 years in prison Tuesday (July 19) for shooting to death the son of his father’s girlfriend. District Judge Reginald T. Badeaux issued the...
Man Who Killed Girlfriend’s Husband in Covington Gets Life Sentence
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2016 COVINGTON—A St. Tammany Parish judge sentenced Carlos Rodriguez, 45, formerly of Kenner, to a mandatory life sentence Thursday (July 7) for carrying out a plot with his girlfriend to kill her husband in 2009. Rodriguez had been found...
ICYMI – Plans for Safe Haven Campus in Mandeville Rolled Out
District Attorney Warren Montgomery joined Parish President Pat Brister and other public officials this week at a town hall meeting, where plans were unveiled for the parish’s Safe Haven campus in Mandeville. Safe Haven, which will be housed on the grounds of the old...