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UPDATE: Suspect Arrested, Two Wanted Suspects Identified in Seventh District Armed Carjacking

by Aaron E. Looney

February 2, 2021

Categories: Be on the Lookout

Topics: Armed Robbery, Good Police Work, Seventh District

UPDATE: Suspect Arrested, Two Wanted Suspects Identified in Seventh District Armed Carjacking

UPDATE: Tadarryl Cobbins has been arrested and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center in regards to this investigation.

Wanted suspects Kanard Allen and a 16-year-old juvenile suspect remain at large.

 

ORIGINAL: The NOPD has obtained arrests warrants for three individuals – two adult males and a juvenile male – in the investigation of an armed carjacking on January 26, 2021 in the 7200 block of Hayne Boulevard.

Through investigation, NOPD Seventh District detectives determined that the victim had received a phone call from a known male subject later identified as Kanard Allen (pictured, DOB: 05-29-2002), with Allen reportedly asking the victim to pick him up from a known location. The victim retrieved Allen, at which time Allen allegedly requested the victim pick up additional subjects. Once all subjects entered into the victim’s vehicle, two of the subjects – identified as Tadarryl Cobbins (pictured, DOB: 07-10-2002) and a 16-year-old juvenile black male (not pictured) reportedly produced handguns and demanded the victim’s keys at gunpoint. The victim reportedly handed the keys to Allen and exited the vehicle, at which time the three subjects fled in the victim’s vehicle. , at which time the victim handed his keys to Kanard Allen and exited his/her vehicle.

As investigation progressed, detectives positively identified Allen, Cobbins and the juvenile as the perpetrators and obtained arrest warrants for each.

Anyone with additional information on this incident or the whereabouts of the wanted suspects is asked to contact NOPD Seventh District detectives at 504-658-6070 or call anonymously to Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111 or toll-free 1-877-903-STOP.