NOPD News

On December 11, 2024, members of the NOPD’s Violent Offender Warrant Squad and the U.S. Marshals arrested a 15-year-old juvenile black male in the investigation of a homicide that occurred on December 4, 2024, in the 11900 block of Hayne Boulevard.

UPDATE: Wanted suspect Joneaka Smooth turned herself today (December 12, 2024) to NOPD Traffic Fatality Unit investigators. She is currently being booked on the charges listed in the previously issued press release.

No further information is currently available.

Anyone with additional information regarding this incident is asked to contact NOPD Traffic Fatality Unit detectives at (504) 658-6205 or to call Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans anonymously at (504) 822-1111.

The NOPD is seeking assistance in identifying and locating a suspect sought in the investigation of an aggravated battery by shooting incident that stemmed from a residential burglary this morning (December 10, 2024) in the Seventh District.

The NOPD is seeking assistance in locating a subject identified as a person of interest for questioning in its ongoing investigation of a homicide that occurred on September 22, 2020, in the 7500 block of Brevard Avenue.

A second individual was arrested today (December 9, 2024) in the NOPD’s ongoing investigation of a homicide that occurred on November 17, 2024, at the intersection of Almonaster and Florida avenues that left two victims dead.