Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office

11/02/2026

10/30/2026

"I knew something happened to me, and I didn’t agree with this," a young woman testified Thursday in describing how she was drugged and r***d in a Harvey home when she was 16. Evans Ussin, 46, was convicted of second-degree r**e. Read more:

A Jefferson Parish jury on Thursday (Oct. 29) found Evans Ussin guilty of ra**ng a teenager, whom he incapacitated by slipping the sedative alprazolam in her drink during what she thought was a social visit to his home in Harvey. Ussin, 46, was convicted of second-degree r**e in connection with the....

10/29/2026

Cashmere Butler, 19, went to trial this week asking a jury to acquit him of murder for shooting 18-year-old Samuel Tague in Marrero last year. Jurors rejected the justifiable homicide defense and convicted Butler of manslaughter. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Read more:

A Jefferson Parish jury on Wednesday (Oct. 28) decided that Cashmere Butler committed manslaughter when he pressed a pistol barrel against Samuel Tague’s stomach and pulled the trigger, killing the teen. In doing so, jurors rejected the defense theory that Butler was acting in self-defense and the...

10/24/2026

"If I can't have you, no one else can," Jakita-Johnson-Nash told her ex-girlfriend Charlene Jarreau on the day before she killed the woman on a Metairie Street by shooting her in the back of her neck as she walked away, a killing that culminated a 33-minute hunt. Johnson-Nash then eliminated evidence tying her to the crime and threatened an eye-witness to keep quiet. A jury on Friday rejected her insanity defense and convicted her as charged of second-degree murder. Parish Sheriff's Office Read more:

A Jefferson Parish jury on Friday night (Oct. 23) found Jakita Johnson-Nash guilty of fatally shooting her ex-girlfriend Charlene Jarreau on a Metairie street, rejecting the defense attorneys’ assertions that she could not be held criminally responsible because of mental illness. Johnson-Nash, 43,...

10/23/2026

James F. Butler Jr., 33, faces life in prison for his conviction Thursday of ra**ng a child in Kenner. Read more:

A Jefferson Parish jury on Thursday evening (Oct. 22) found James F. Butler Jr. guilty of sexually abusing a child at least three times while living in Kenner, beginning when the child was 7 or 8 years old. Butler, 33, of Houston, Texas, was convicted as charged of first-degree r**e of a victim unde...

10/22/2026

“Rest peacefully daddy, I will carry your love with me for the rest of my life,” a woman testified Wednesday, moments before her ex-boyfriend Jakobe Odoms was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering her father, Larry Miller, 54. Read more:

A Jefferson Parish judge on Wednesday (Oct. 21) sentenced Jakobe Odoms to spend the rest of his life in prison plus five years for his conviction of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s father. Odoms, 24, who had a history of domestic abuse involving his ex-girlfriend, went to her father Larry Miller’s...

10/16/2026

Jakobe Odoms' threats of violence and actual violence toward his ex-girlfriend culminated when he went to her father's apartment, knocked on the door and then shot the man as he answered the door, killing him. Odoms, 24, was convicted Thursday Oct. 15) of the second-degree murder of Larry Miller, 54. Read more: https://www.jpda.us/jakobe-odoms-larry-miller-murder-domestic-violence-harvey/

10/14/2026

Danette Colbert, 49, who caused the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano last year when he was in the New Orleans area to cover the Super Bowl, was resentenced today to spend the rest of her life in prison as a habitual offender. Judge Nancy Miller ran the life sentence consecutive to the 50 years Colbert received for racketeering and 25 years she got for unrelated crimes in New Orleans. Click the link to read more: https://www.jpda.us/danette-colbert-adan-manzano-habitual-offender-career-criminal-super-bowl-reporter/