Man crashes SUV into Covington church while teaching himself how to drive Posted by The Times-Picayune October 16, 2008 11:55AM Covington Police DepartmentAn SUV crashed into the Iglesia de Dios Ebenezer Church, 1271 N. Lee Road, Wednesday afternoon.
An illegal immigrant's attempt to teach himself how to drive didn't end well in Covington.
Roman Mateo Zeferino, 48, of 620 Magee St., Covington, was driving a Ford Explorer on Lee Road about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the front of the Iglesia de Dios Ebenezer Church at 1271 N. Lee Road, Covington Police spokesman Jack West said.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found that Zeferino, who was uninjured, had crawled out through the back of the SUV, which was halfway inside the church when it came to a halt, West said. No one was in the church at the time of the crash, he said.
With the help of a passer-by who spoke Spanish, Zeferino told police he had been trying to teach himself to drive when he lost control of the vehicle, West said.
Zeferino was booked with careless driving, driving without a license and driving while being in the United States illegally.
"Dispatcher for New Orleans Police Department, three others nabbed in Chalmette coke bust by The Times-Picayune Thursday October 16, 2008, 2:45 PM
St. Bernard Parish deputies arrested four people -- including a radio dispatcher for the New Orleans Police Department -- after raiding a Chalmette home where large amounts of cocaine were being packaged for street sales.
Speaking Thursday from behind a table covered with $80,000 in cash, 13 pounds of cocaine and four AK-47 assault rifles, St. Bernard Parish sheriff's officials said the operation was busted after military police noticed two men in slippers buying several boxes of baking soda and plastic sandwich baggies from an all-night convenience store in Arabi.
The New Orleans police dispatcher, Contrice Martin, 33, resigned her post Wednesday after being arrested. St. Bernard authorities said Martin denied any knowledge of a cocaine distribution operation in her residence.
Martin, her husband, Keith Martin, 33, Tony Green of New Orleans, who is described as being in his 30s, and David Haywood, 29, of Avondale, have been booked with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of more than 400 grams of cocaine, and possession of stolen weapons.
All remained in St. Bernard Parish prison late Thursday. Bond for Contrice Martin was set at $400,000; bond for the other three suspects was set at $525,000.
"This is a significant seizure for St. Bernard Parish," said Chief Deputy James Pohlmann, adding that he cannot recall as much cocaine being recovered in the parish in the last 20 years. "We didn't think there was this kind of quantity of drugs in St. Bernard. We expected drugs -- but not six kilos."
Martin resigned once NOPD internal investigators went to question her, NOPD spokesman Bob Young said Thursday. She had been employed since October 2001 as a dispatcher in the agency's communications division, responsible for monitoring police radios, as well as dispatching and receiving calls for service.
Contrice Martin told investigators she had lived in Chalmette since before Hurricane Katrina and had moved into half of a rented double on Valor Drive in February.
Pohlmann said the group would bring cocaine in from the Houston area, process and package it in the Martins' residence, then sell it in New Orleans.
Pohlmann said there is no indication that Contrice Martin aided the drug operation through her position with the police department.
Keith Martin, who authorities described as the leader of the group, told investigators the Chalmette residence offered a safer base of operations than New Orleans because of the dangerous drug trade in the city, Pohlmann said.
Military police officers patrolling the Lower Ninth Ward spotted the two men at a convenience store just across the parish line overnight Tuesday. Knowing that baking soda and baggies are used to make and bag crack cocaine, the officers jotted down the license plate of the vehicle and passed the information to the Sheriff's Office.
A check of the license showed the vehicle had been rented by Contrice Martin. Deputies searched the surrounding neighborhoods and eventually found it in the driveway of the Valor Drive residence later Tuesday. Deputies then began surveillance and, armed with a search warrant, raided the house around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
All four suspects were at the home at the time of the raid, authorities said.
The Sheriff's Office is working with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration on the continuing investigation. One of the AK-47 rifles had been stolen out of the Houston area, authorities said. Registration checks are being done on the other AK-47s, as well as two handguns recovered. "
Heh.. more Fail here in New Orleans.. All this in less than a week! I FUCKING LOVE LIVING HERE!!!
Saints ticket is ticket to jail by Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune Thursday October 16, 2008, 10:51 PM
New Orleans police detectives tracking down a credit card stolen out of a car parked on a Gentilly street last week didn't have to look far to find their suspect.
The 15-year-old was sitting in his assigned seat at the Superdome after using the purloined card to purchase a ticket to the Saints game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 6.
"You would think if you are going to buy a ticket to get in the stadium (on a stolen credit card), you would go sit somewhere else, " said Maj. Greg Elder, commander of the New Orleans Police Department's 3rd District.
The credit card was stolen earlier that day, when someone broke into an unlocked car in the 5100 block of Frenchmen Street and snatched a purse left on the vehicle's console. The owner of the car reported the theft to the NOPD's 7th District, which covers eastern New Orleans. Police there contacted 3rd District detectives and put them on the case, Elder said.
The victim told Detectives Tony Mayfield and Chris Harris that her credit card company reported the card had been used to buy a ticket to that night's game.
The detectives arrived just before halftime, and recognized the young man in the seat as somebody who had previously been arrested for auto burglary, Elder said.
When they asked to see his ticket, he handed over a white envelope containing the ticket, the stolen credit card and the woman's driver's license, according to the initial police report filed by the detectives.
Police arrested the youth and escorted him out of the Superdome. Walking to the police car, he apologized and told the detectives he has a problem taking things that don't belong to him, the report said.
Mayfield and Harris advised him not to make any further statements unless his mother was present, and took the 15-year-old to the NOPD's juvenile division. He was booked with auto burglary and possession of stolen property.
Elder said people need to lock their car doors, adding that a substantial portion of burglary complaints come from people who left valuable items inside an unsecured vehicle.
"I wouldn't do it even in front of (NOPD) headquarters, " he said.
That is brilliant, but also slightly disturbing, and basically fucked up!
To get a C rating for a restaurant or bar, that place has to be crawling in shit. My uncle owns a bar, you have to really really fuck up to not get an A Im not saying the health department is lax, they are just realistic!
i've an aquaintance that does public health inspections. it's a job she got right out of Uni. the first few months, she spent in a state of constant horror and nausea. to this day, she won't eat in a restaurant. what is acceptable is pretty slack all on its own. to get a C, i think you'd have to have an open toilet in the kitchen, or the equivalent. most places that have appalling hygiene get a warning, and then a second and third warning, before they actually get marked down. to get an actual C like that, they're not only dirty, but lazy.
it's a fail strawberry, orson, because those seedlings won't survive. the seed's sprouting strategy is an evolutionary dead end. nature's always experimenting, yes?
the people with glasses... that's an unretouched ad for an optometrist business. multiple levels of fail, imo.
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Man crashes SUV into Covington church while teaching himself how to drive
Posted by The Times-Picayune October 16, 2008 11:55AM
Covington Police DepartmentAn SUV crashed into the Iglesia de Dios Ebenezer Church, 1271 N. Lee Road, Wednesday afternoon.
An illegal immigrant's attempt to teach himself how to drive didn't end well in Covington.
Roman Mateo Zeferino, 48, of 620 Magee St., Covington, was driving a Ford Explorer on Lee Road about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the front of the Iglesia de Dios Ebenezer Church at 1271 N. Lee Road, Covington Police spokesman Jack West said.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found that Zeferino, who was uninjured, had crawled out through the back of the SUV, which was halfway inside the church when it came to a halt, West said. No one was in the church at the time of the crash, he said.
With the help of a passer-by who spoke Spanish, Zeferino told police he had been trying to teach himself to drive when he lost control of the vehicle, West said.
Zeferino was booked with careless driving, driving without a license and driving while being in the United States illegally.
"Dispatcher for New Orleans Police Department, three others nabbed in Chalmette coke bust
by The Times-Picayune
Thursday October 16, 2008, 2:45 PM
St. Bernard Parish deputies arrested four people -- including a radio dispatcher for the New Orleans Police Department -- after raiding a Chalmette home where large amounts of cocaine were being packaged for street sales.
Speaking Thursday from behind a table covered with $80,000 in cash, 13 pounds of cocaine and four AK-47 assault rifles, St. Bernard Parish sheriff's officials said the operation was busted after military police noticed two men in slippers buying several boxes of baking soda and plastic sandwich baggies from an all-night convenience store in Arabi.
The New Orleans police dispatcher, Contrice Martin, 33, resigned her post Wednesday after being arrested. St. Bernard authorities said Martin denied any knowledge of a cocaine distribution operation in her residence.
Martin, her husband, Keith Martin, 33, Tony Green of New Orleans, who is described as being in his 30s, and David Haywood, 29, of Avondale, have been booked with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of more than 400 grams of cocaine, and possession of stolen weapons.
All remained in St. Bernard Parish prison late Thursday. Bond for Contrice Martin was set at $400,000; bond for the other three suspects was set at $525,000.
"This is a significant seizure for St. Bernard Parish," said Chief Deputy James Pohlmann, adding that he cannot recall as much cocaine being recovered in the parish in the last 20 years. "We didn't think there was this kind of quantity of drugs in St. Bernard. We expected drugs -- but not six kilos."
Martin resigned once NOPD internal investigators went to question her, NOPD spokesman Bob Young said Thursday. She had been employed since October 2001 as a dispatcher in the agency's communications division, responsible for monitoring police radios, as well as dispatching and receiving calls for service.
Contrice Martin told investigators she had lived in Chalmette since before Hurricane Katrina and had moved into half of a rented double on Valor Drive in February.
Pohlmann said the group would bring cocaine in from the Houston area, process and package it in the Martins' residence, then sell it in New Orleans.
Pohlmann said there is no indication that Contrice Martin aided the drug operation through her position with the police department.
Keith Martin, who authorities described as the leader of the group, told investigators the Chalmette residence offered a safer base of operations than New Orleans because of the dangerous drug trade in the city, Pohlmann said.
Military police officers patrolling the Lower Ninth Ward spotted the two men at a convenience store just across the parish line overnight Tuesday. Knowing that baking soda and baggies are used to make and bag crack cocaine, the officers jotted down the license plate of the vehicle and passed the information to the Sheriff's Office.
A check of the license showed the vehicle had been rented by Contrice Martin. Deputies searched the surrounding neighborhoods and eventually found it in the driveway of the Valor Drive residence later Tuesday. Deputies then began surveillance and, armed with a search warrant, raided the house around 8 a.m. Wednesday.
All four suspects were at the home at the time of the raid, authorities said.
The Sheriff's Office is working with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration on the continuing investigation. One of the AK-47 rifles had been stolen out of the Houston area, authorities said. Registration checks are being done on the other AK-47s, as well as two handguns recovered. "
Saints ticket is ticket to jail
by Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune
Thursday October 16, 2008, 10:51 PM
New Orleans police detectives tracking down a credit card stolen out of a car parked on a Gentilly street last week didn't have to look far to find their suspect.
The 15-year-old was sitting in his assigned seat at the Superdome after using the purloined card to purchase a ticket to the Saints game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 6.
"You would think if you are going to buy a ticket to get in the stadium (on a stolen credit card), you would go sit somewhere else, " said Maj. Greg Elder, commander of the New Orleans Police Department's 3rd District.
The credit card was stolen earlier that day, when someone broke into an unlocked car in the 5100 block of Frenchmen Street and snatched a purse left on the vehicle's console. The owner of the car reported the theft to the NOPD's 7th District, which covers eastern New Orleans. Police there contacted 3rd District detectives and put them on the case, Elder said.
The victim told Detectives Tony Mayfield and Chris Harris that her credit card company reported the card had been used to buy a ticket to that night's game.
The detectives arrived just before halftime, and recognized the young man in the seat as somebody who had previously been arrested for auto burglary, Elder said.
When they asked to see his ticket, he handed over a white envelope containing the ticket, the stolen credit card and the woman's driver's license, according to the initial police report filed by the detectives.
Police arrested the youth and escorted him out of the Superdome. Walking to the police car, he apologized and told the detectives he has a problem taking things that don't belong to him, the report said.
Mayfield and Harris advised him not to make any further statements unless his mother was present, and took the 15-year-old to the NOPD's juvenile division. He was booked with auto burglary and possession of stolen property.
Elder said people need to lock their car doors, adding that a substantial portion of burglary complaints come from people who left valuable items inside an unsecured vehicle.
"I wouldn't do it even in front of (NOPD) headquarters, " he said.
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i think this was a genius move.
That is brilliant, but also slightly disturbing, and basically fucked up!
To get a C rating for a restaurant or bar, that place has to be crawling in shit.
My uncle owns a bar, you have to really really fuck up to not get an A
Im not saying the health department is lax, they are just realistic!
sometimes, you just don't need to label it.
new austin powers movie???
the people with glasses... that's an unretouched ad for an optometrist business. multiple levels of fail, imo.
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