This Week in Court
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Armed robbery, aggravated battery convictions net 40-year sentence
A Shreveport man convicted early last year for crimes committed in 2018 was finally sentenced to four decades in prison, his brief reprieve occasioned by COVID-19 restrictions and delays. Jermaine Dewone Bolden, 36, who has the street name "Sockhead," was sentenced...
Caddo Grand Jury returns true bills
The Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned several true bills on Friday, May 28, 2021. Devontey Bouya, 24, of Shreveport, is charged with second-degree murder in connection with the February 11, 2021 slaying of Treyshun Bogan. Bogan, 24, was shot following an altercation on...
Teen nets juvenile life sentence for crime spree
A Shreveport teen was sentenced to juvenile life in prison after pleading guilty in Caddo Parish Juvenile Court Thursday, May 27, 2021, to an armed robbery earlier this year. Traylon Johnson, 17, received the sentence — incarceration until age 21 — from Juvenile...
Shreveport man guilty of 2016 I-49 murder
A Caddo Parish jury found a Shreveport man guilty of second-degree murder in connection with a random automatic rifle fusillade on Interstate 49 in central Shreveport five years ago. The six-man, six-woman jury in District Judge Ramona Emanuel's court deliberated...
Man faces life in prison after rape conviction
A man convicted Friday, May 21, 2021 of forcing a child to perform oral sex on him faces life in prison after a Caddo Parish jury found him guilty as charged. Broderick Dewayne Crawford, 38, was convicted of first-degree rape unanimously by the seven-man, five-woman...