Slidell Area Man Gets Life Sentence for 2011 Murder of Firefighter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 30, 2016 COVINGTON—Michael D. Lizana, 38, who lived just outside Slidell, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday (Sept. 29) after pleading guilty to first degree murder for fatally shooting a St. Tammany Parish firefighter and hiding his...

Habitual Offender Gets Life Sentence for Raping Carnival Worker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 26, 2016 COVINGTON— District Judge Scott Gardner sentenced Alvin Davis, 57, of Slidell, as an habitual offender to life in prison Monday (Sept. 26) for raping a 21-year-old woman who was part of a traveling carnival in 2014. A St. Tammany...

Covington Man Pleads Guilty to 79 Counts of Child Pornography

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 26, 2016 COVINGTON—Christopher Cote, 33, of Covington, pleaded guilty Thursday (Sept. 22) to 79 counts of child pornography, which was discovered during an undercover investigation last year. District Judge Peter J. Garcia sentenced Cote to...

Slidell Man Pleads Guilty to Double Shooting in 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 21, 2016 COVINGTON—Rhamad R. Jackson, 27, of Slidell, pleaded guilty Monday (Sept. 19) to two counts of manslaughter and one count of burglary of an inhabited dwelling for shooting two men and burglarizing the home of one of them nearly six...