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Sgt. Alfred James Russel Jr., 26, was removed from parade duty after a video appeared to show him pushing a marching band member on Saint Charles.

Morrell faces a dozen wire fraud counts, accused of double dipping with police and off-duty details and racing cars on the West Bank or elsewhere while clocked in for duty.

Former New Orleans police Sgt. Todd Morrell was charged with a dozen counts of wire fraud on Thursday in a federal indictment that claims he frequently double billed for on-duty

Nearly 100,000 DNA samples sit unprocessed, city records obtained by UNO professor show

Monitors who report to U.S. Judge Susie Morgan claim the city violated several reform mandates in its probe of Officer Jeffrey Vappie

The rule to show cause hearing will continue at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 5.

Michelle Woodfork defended the NOPD's decision to allow former Captain Sabrina Richardson to return to detail work while she remains under investigation for allegedly abusing the detail program.

Sabrina Richardson is currently under two criminal investigations, however, after returning from her suspension, she was able to resume participation in the same program she’s been accused of abusing.

Dr. Shamika Kelley, director of New Orleans' crime lab, outlined a plan to get the new facility up and running, returning a DNA testing-equipped crime lab to New Orleans for the first time since Hurricane Katrina.