Nicholas Calup admits to burglary, gun crime

A Shreveport man about to be tried on simple burglary and felonious possession of a firearm charges pleaded guilty just after his nine-woman, three-man jury had been sworn in and the state's first witness was testifying in Caddo District Court Thursday, September 11, 2025.

The state had intended to call five witnesses to prove that Nicholas Calup, 25, had possessed a firearm knowing he had been convicted of a felony that prohibited him from taking a firearm that did not belong to him from a parked truck on Wyngate Boulevard. On September 24, 2024, Calup walked up to the vehicle, reached inside, unlocked the door and stole an AR-15.  

Surveillance video would have shown Calup committing the crime and then and then jogging away. Fingerprints collected at the scene were determined to be Calup's. He later was detained near where he lives, only a few blocks from the crime scene.

Calup will be sentenced September 29, 2025, by District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr. He faces a prison term of at least five and up to 20 years at hard labor without benefit of probation, parole or reduction of sentence on the gun possession conviction, and up to 12 years in prison, with or without hard labor, for the burglary conviction.

He was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Stephen Folk-Cruthirds and Ashlin Thomas. He was defended by Harry Johnson and Hilary Hileman.

The case was docket No. 404298.