Ben Wallace
Baton Rouge Advocate
Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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Former police officer wants job back; accused of leaving extra duty job, making fake 911 call
A fired Baton Rouge police officer accused of making a bogus 911 call and illegally accessing a criminal history database is trying to get his job back. → Read More
Baton Rouge police officer reprimanded in ‘Sons of Guns’ mocking on parade float
The humiliation wasn’t intentional, the police officers said. In recent interviews with Internal Affairs investigators, three Baton Rouge police officers said they did not mean to insult → Read More
Baton Rouge man uses axe to get control of police cruiser, arrested in Port Allen after short chase, police report
An axe-wielding man allegedly attacked a Baton Rouge police officer Thursday night a few blocks north of LSU then stole the officer’s police car before being captured in → Read More
17-year-old paralyzed from waist down after 8-year-old brother shoots him with rifle; Baton Rouge-area caretaker arrested
An 8-year-old boy shot his 17-year-old brother as the teen was playing a video game in a Gardere area home last week, and sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday → Read More
LSU OL Jevonte Domond arrested on felony domestic abuse
LSU offensive tackle Jevonte Domond has been arrested on a felony domestic abuse battery with strangulation, according to police booking records. LSU team spokesman Michael Bonnette → Read More
Baton Rouge police make diversity progress; fire department lags
Baton Rouge, /News/: In the last couple of years, more minorities than whites were hired to police Baton Rouge, reflecting both a growing pool of minority applicants and pointed efforts by the Police Department to diversify as mandated by a decades-old agreement with the U.S. → Read More
Police increasingly using cellphone data — ‘the mother lode for law enforcement’ — in crime investigations
Baton Rouge, /News/Police/: Taherah Ghassemi’s body might still be buried in the woods — and the men accused of abducting and killing her might still be free — if it weren’t for cellphones. The increasingly computerized devices played a pivotal role in ending the five-week search fo → Read More
Baton Rouge police dispute Sports Illustrated claim that detectives delayed meeting with La’el Collins
There has been much speculation in the sports world about why former LSU football star La’el Collins waited until after the NFL draft to meet with Baton Rouge → Read More
Baton Rouge police dispute Sports Illustrated claim that detectives delayed meeting with La’el Collins
There has been much speculation in the sports world about why former LSU football star La’el Collins waited until after the NFL draft to meet with Baton → Read More
Law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty honored at National Police Week ceremony in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, /News/: Mary Katherine Moore thinks about her brother every day. So on the one day a year when police officers killed in the line of duty are honored across the country, Moore, 42, makes sure to attend the local ceremony in Baton Rouge. Her brother, Baton Rouge P → Read More
Baton Rouge police say they see no link in the shooting deaths of three women, the disappearance of a fourth in the past two months
Three women were killed in separate shootings and a fourth woman disappeared over the past two months in East Baton Rouge Parish. But thus far, the only element → Read More
Baton Rouge men accused of carrying rifles too close to LSU campus
It was Tuesday night when an anonymous caller reported seeing two men walking along the Mississippi River levee dressed in military gear and carrying rifles. LSU → Read More
Questions still swirl around disappearance of Baton Rouge toddler and killing of her mother
Roderick Watson Jr. said Thursday he did not know the couple accused of recently kidnapping his young daughter. Thus far, he’s as curious as anyone about why his → Read More
Couple arrested, accused of kidnapping A'Kyleana Latham, daughter of slain Taylor Latham
A Baton Rouge man awaiting trial on a child abuse charge and his girlfriend were arrested Wednesday night in the kidnapping of a toddler whose mother was → Read More
Baton Rouge police arrest two people in woman’s death, toddler disappearance
Baton Rouge police arrested two people Wednesday night as part of an investigation into in the recent shooting death of a 24-year-old woman and the disappearance of the → Read More
The sound of an engine, then 3 'thunks': Bicyclist describes frightening Nicholson Drive crash, and how the driver who caused it just drove away
A red pickup truck plowed into three experienced cyclists Monday night on Nicholson Drive, seriously injuring one before driving away as first responders tended to the wounded men. → Read More
Source: Ex-LSU star La'el Collins to take paternity test to determine if he was father of Brittney Mills' child
Former LSU offensive lineman La’el Collins plans to take a paternity test soon to determine if he was the father of shooting victim Brittney Mills’ child, and Collins’ → Read More
High-tech heart monitors considered ‘game changer’ for EMS medics, patients, in East Baton Rouge
EMS medics in East Baton Rouge Parish will soon be equipped with new gadgets expected to significantly improve vital information hospitals receive about patients en route to → Read More
La’el Collins to talk to detectives about murdered pregnant woman after draft, Baton Rouge police say
Baton Rouge, /News/: Former LSU standout offensive lineman La’el Collins, a projected first-round pick in Thursday’s NFL draft, has scheduled an interview with Baton Rouge homicide detectives investigating the recent killing of a pregnant woman, Baton Rouge police said. Cpl. → Read More
Two students hospitalized Monday morning after school bus crash on Weller Avenue in Baton Rouge
. A crash involving a school bus Monday morning on Weller Avenue sent two students who were aboard the bus to a hospital with minor injuries, according → Read More