Crime

A Shreveport man who threw a half-full beer bottle at a man in an area bar was convicted Wednesday, June 15, of aggravated battery in Caddo District Court.

A Shreveport man was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. for illegally possessing firearms.

On Friday, June 3, Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington was inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Lod Cook Hotel and Conference Center in Baton Rouge.

Detectives with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office have arrested two men for using social media dating app to have illegal sexual contact with a juvenile.

A teenager was arrested last week in connection with a shooting incident in a local park.

PRINCETON, La. – On Thursday, June 16, just after 5 a.m., troopers assigned to Louisiana State Police Troop G began investigating a one-vehicle fatality crash on LA Hwy 157, just south of LA Hwy. 528. This crash claimed the life of 37-year-old Geoffrey Davis.

Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington promoted two deputies in a ceremony in the Sheriff’s Conference Room at the Command Center in Plain Dealing Monday.

The chief deputy of the Shreveport City Marshal’s Office has been sworn in as the interim marshal after the previous marshal’s body was recovered from the Gulf of Mexico.