Mandeville Crime

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Recent Crime News

• This week: Oyster Festival, WYES Beer Tasting and Vi...

  Wednesday | via The Times-Picayune 

  Dozens of local restaurants will be serving oyster dishes and more at the third annual New Orleans Oyster Festival at Woldenberg Riverfront Park on Saturday and Sunday.

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  Related Topix: Life, Food, Food Festival, Louisiana, Dillard University, Mandeville, LA, Destrehan, LA

• Sentencing delayed again in decade-old Mandeville mu...

  Tuesday May 29 | via NOLA.com 

  When Henry Jaume arrived at the St. Tammany Parish courthouse Tuesday morning for the 85th hearing for the man convicted of killing his daughter-in-law, he was already angry -- his typical emotion, he said, when dealing with the years-long legal feud to determine whether Dominic Robinson should die for the crime.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Mandeville, LA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Covington, LA

• Mandeville Police seek suspects in check scam

  Tuesday May 29 | via NOLA.com 

  Mandeville Police are on the lookout for several people allegedly involved in a check cashing scam.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, Baton Rouge, LA, Kenner, LA, New Orleans, LA

• Tammany Trace is hailed as a top-notch recreation trail

  Tuesday May 29 | via NOLA.com 

  Of all the regulars who ply the Tammany Trace through lower St. Tammany Parish , Jim Monahan no doubt cuts one of the most interesting figures.

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• Mandeville Police Department unveils latest booking ...

  Sunday May 20 | via NOLA.com 

  Mandeville residents can now sign up to receive neighborhood-level notifications from the Police Department via text message, email and the World Wide Web.

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• Homeowner fights burglars while in his underwear

  Friday May 18 | via KFVS12 

  A Texas man awoke and found a burglar in his room and chased him away while still in his undies SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - A homeowner's front lawn turned into a wrestling ring when he struggled to take down a trio of home invaders.

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  Related Topix: Jack County, TX, Wolfforth, TX

• Homeowner fights burglars while in his underwear

  Thursday May 17 | via KCTV5 

  A homeowner's front lawn turned into a wrestling ring when he struggled to take down a trio of home invaders.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, New Orleans, LA

• Baby fighting cancer inspires flash mob from students

  Wednesday May 16 | via CBS Atlanta 

  MANDEVILLE, LA Students figured a flash mob was the best way to cheer up their vice principal, whose infant son has been battling cancer for several months.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, New Orleans, LA

• Mandeville bank robber is sentenced to 60 years

  Monday May 14 | via NOLA.com 

  A California man -- caught with hands and cash stained pink from an exploding dye pack, the day after he robbed a Mandeville bank -- was sentenced Monday to serve 60 years in prison.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, Criminal Defense Law, Law

• Benson O'Brien, 35, booked with the second-degree mu...

  Sunday May 13 | via NOLA.com 

  Benson Harrison O'Brien III has been booked with second-degree murder in the strangulation death of 31-year-old Bridgette Harveston, the mother of his infant son, according to O'Brien's lawyer, Buddy Spell.

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  Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Covington, LA, Mandeville, LA

• Man accused of killing ex-wife returned to St. Tamma...

  Thursday May 10 | via NOLA.com 

  St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies drove Calvin Jefferson back to St. Tammany Parish from Lake Charles this afternoon and booked into the parish jail in Covington on a second-degree murder warrant.

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  Related Topix: Violent Crime, Lake Charles, LA, Covington, LA, Mandeville, LA

• Host of community events coming in Mandeville, Madis...

  Thursday May 10 | via The Times-Picayune 

  May is always a busy month on the community news desk. That's because so many of you are planning outdoors events, focusing on graduations, taking care of last-minute details before that first "summer" vacation, etc.

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  Related Topix: Madisonville, LA, Mandeville, LA, Events

• Boyfriend is 'person of interest' in woman's strangu...

  Wednesday May 9 | via NOLA.com 

  The boyfriend of a woman who died of strangulation on Monday has been jailed on outstanding theft warrants, records show, and he is "a person of interest" in his girlfriend's killing, according to his lawyer.

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  Related Topix: Covington, LA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Mandeville, LA

• Coast Guard steps up inspections of towboats

  Wednesday May 9 | via WMBF 

  The claws and teeth of wild things are a near-nightly affair at bedtime for Gregg Svingen's 2-year-old, Tessa.

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  Related Topix: New Orleans, LA, Boat Disaster

• Man sought in ex-wife's death surrenders

  Tuesday May 8 | via Alexandria Daily Town Talk 

  MANDEVILLE, La. - The ex-husband of a woman whose body was found in St. Tammany Parish Sunday evening surrendered Tuesday to Calcasieu Parish authorities St.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, Lake Charles, LA

• Years of domestic strife preceded slaying of Nicole ...

  Apr 29, 2012 | via NOLA.com 

  On the day 31-year-old Nicole Veade Jefferson was last seen alive, she told her ex-husband Calvin Jefferson to move out of the Mandeville-area home the two shared with their four children, according to her family.

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  Related Topix: Mandeville, LA, Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law, Slidell, LA, Covington, LA, Lake Charles, LA

• Suspect in murder of Mandeville woman surrenders

  Mar 22, 2012 | via WWL-AM New Orleans 

  St. Tammany officials say a man wanted for the murder of a Northshore mother has turned himself in.

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