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Bogalusa Man Gets Life in Prison As Multiple Offender for Selling Drugs

Bogalusa Man Gets Life in Prison As Multiple Offender for Selling Drugs

FRANKLINTON—James Spikes, Sr., 58, of Bogalusa, received the maximum sentence of life imprisonment Monday (Nov. 30) under the state’s multiple offender law for distributing oxycodone during a 2013 undercover drug operation. Spikes has 17 prior felony convictions and a...

Slidell Man Gets 40 Years in Prison for Manslaughter

Slidell Man Gets 40 Years in Prison for Manslaughter

COVINGTON—Andrew J. Sumner, 22, of Slidell, has been sentenced to 40 years at hard labor for manslaughter in the 2012 death of a woman who was stabbed to death and set on fire in her Slidell apartment. Judge Allison H. Penzato sentenced Sumner Thursday (Oct. 29) for...

Abita Springs Man Pleads Guilty to Molesting a 16-Year-Old Girl

Abita Springs Man Pleads Guilty to Molesting a 16-Year-Old Girl

COVINGTON—Joshua Hanson, 27, of Abita Springs, was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday (Oct. 22), after pleading guilty to molestation of a juvenile and carnal knowledge of a juvenile for incidents more than two years ago with a 16-year-old girl. Hanson first...

Washington Parish Transportation Manager Gets Six-Month Prison Sentence

Washington Parish Transportation Manager Gets Six-Month Prison Sentence

FRANKLINTON—Russell Lavell Gerald, 46, transportation manager for the Washington Parish Public Works Department, was sentenced to six months in prison Friday (Oct. 16) after District Judge Scott C. Gardner revoked his probation. Gerald was on probation for previous...

Mount Hermon Man Could Face Life in Prison for Operating Meth Lab

Mount Hermon Man Could Face Life in Prison for Operating Meth Lab

FRANKLINTON—Glenn Guyn, 49, of Mount Hermon, faces 30 years to life in prison after his conviction Tuesday (Oct. 13) by a Washington Parish jury on charges that he was operating a methamphetamine lab. District Judge Richard A. Swartz, Jr., is scheduled to sentence...