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A Bossier City man on probation for domestic abuse battery with serious body injury was convicted in Caddo District Court Tuesday, January 13, 2026, of cocaine possession.    Tresmone Devoue Kennedy, 35, was found responsively guilty of simple possession of a schedule II narcotic by the six-woman jury in District Judge Erin Leigh Waddell-Garrett's court after deliberations that took less than an hour.    Through testimony from arresting officers, investigators and physical ev

A Shreveport man whose criminal history presented him from owning or possessing a weapon was found guilty in Caddo District Court Tuesday, January 13, 2026, of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

A Shreveport man with a history of sex offenses was convicted in Caddo District Court Tuesday, January 13, 2026, for failure to register as a sex offender.

A Waskom, Texas man about to go on trial in Caddo District Court for a 2023 traffic collision that led to another man's death pleaded guilty Monday, January 12, 2026, to vehicular homicide. 

A man charged in connection with a shooting that occurred in March 2023 in downtown Shreveport, leaving one man dead and wounding six other people, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Caddo District Court Wednesday, January 7, 2026.

As we enter a New Year, the state of our young people, the future of our community, remain foremost on my mind.  In the latter half of 2025, I noticed a troubling trend of an increase of females populating the 24-bed Caddo Parish Juvenile Detention Center.  In prior decades, zero to one females occupied the jail at any given time.

The death of a man following a fight in downtown Shreveport in January has been resolved with the Caddo Parish Grand Jury declining to indict in its returns December 18, 2025. Discovery in the case revealed there was insufficient evidence to try the man arrested in connection with the death and that self-defense could not be discounted.

The Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned five true bills against four Shreveport men in its session that ended December 18, 2025.

A former Caddo Parish man who raped and impregnated a female family member was convicted in Caddo District Court Thursday, December 18, 2025, and faces life in prison.

Caddo Parish Juvenile Court was the setting Thursday, December 18, 2025, for a deserved pat-on-the-back for four students whose improved attendance and grades earned praise from court officials.

A Shreveport man facing trial on numerous counts in Caddo District Court pleaded guilty Tuesday, December 16, 2025, rather than risk enhanced sentencing when his criminal history would be exposed during the legal process. 

A second area teenager who allegedly robbed an elderly woman at gunpoint early last month with an accomplice also will be tried as an adult, Caddo Parish District Attorney James E. Stewart Sr. says.

Louisiana State Police investigations into two fatal Shreveport Police shootings in May have concluded and show that no further action is warranted.

Continuing a tradition that dates to the start of his tenure in office, Caddo Parish District Attorney James E. Stewart Sr. again will present hundreds of deserving parish students with new bicycles in time for Christmas.

A Shreveport man convicted in late October of fatally beating his domestic partner in March 2023, was sentenced Monday, December 8, 2025, to spend the rest of his life in prison. October 30, 2025.

The six-woman, six-man jury in District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr.'s court returned its responsive unanimous guilty verdict on Welton J. Guidry, 35, on the charge of attempted third-degree rape. The trial began Wednesday, December 3, with jury selection.

A Shreveport man accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with a 12-year-old girl was convicted Wednesday, December 3, 2025, of sexual battery of a juvenile under age 13 by a unanimous Caddo Parish jury.

This past summer, I hosted my annual Leadership Camp for Youth.  This free camp is another outreach to the youth of this community I have this office undertake as I see the reality of so many young males killing each other and  throwing their own lives away.   

A Shreveport teen arrested for allegedly setting a fire that killed his two juvenile cousins has been no-true-billed by the Caddo Parish Grand Jury.

The Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned eight true bills in its session that ended November 21, 2025.