Oct. 1, 2025

Big Daddy: The Murder of Hector Trochez

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of “Bloody Angola Podcast”, Jim Chapman details an armored truck robbery in New Orleans Louisiana that resulted in the murder of Loomis Armored Truck Employee Hector Trochez in December of 2013.

Chapters
01:39 Meet Big Daddy
09:32 The Robbery Unfolds
12:17 The Aftermath for the Driver
12:57 Police Investigate the Shooting
14:55 Breakthrough with DNA Evidence
19:18 Two Years of Silence
19:45 Arrests and Indictments
27:34 The Trial and Sentencing
31:53 Final Convictions and Outcomes

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Hadn't went more girls. I Hey everyone, and welcome back

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to Bloody Angola, a podcast of one and forty two

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years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.

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I'm Jim Chapman, and today I have a really interesting

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story I am bringing you regarding an armored truck robbery

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that occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now, this robbery resulted

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in the murder of a limits armored truck security guard.

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His name was Hector Trouchez. Now, before we get into

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the robbery, which took place on December eighteenth of twenty thirteen,

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I want to tell you a little bit about Hector Trouchez.

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Hector was born in Honduras in nineteen sixty eight and

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made his way all the way to Kenner, Louisiana. This

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is an outskirts if you will, of New Orleans. Now

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at the time of the incident, I'm going to tell

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you about. He had been married for thirteen years and

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he had been an armored truck guard for over five years,

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so he was very experienced. He was forty five years

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old at the time of his murder, and he was

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just loving life. He loved his job, and we'll get

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into a little bit more of that now. Judging by

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the comments on his obituary, he was a very beloved

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human being, very respected. People called him Big Daddy. That

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was his nickname because he was a rather large man.

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He was six foot one and he was probably close

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to three hundred pounds, just a big man. So, as

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I mentioned, Hector worked for Loomis Armor Car and this

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company specializes in transporting large amounts of cash. They are

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a global company. They not only have services in the US,

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but various points around the globe. And not only do

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they transport cash, they transport jewels and they transport other

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high value sensitive material. Now, I am sure everyone listening

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has seen these trucks at your local Walmart, for example.

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But where they are most prevalent is banks, and they

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service a lot of ATMs as well. And that's exactly

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what Trochez was doing this day. In December of twenty thirteen.

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Now Hector work as part of a team and they

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were tasked with safeguarding this cash during transport. And y'all

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stop and think about it for a second. How dangerous

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is this job. You're basically driving around and at any

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given time you have millions of dollars in some cases

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at your disposal. It's in your vehicle. And really everyone

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knows that you spot these armored trucks pretty easily when

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they're driving around the road. I mean, they're like giant tanks, right.

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It takes a lot of bravery to be part of

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an armored truck personnel. Now, you also have to be

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a pretty stand up citizen to work for Loomis. They

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conduct one of the most stringent background checks probably ever

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known to man. Think about it, without really digging into

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someone's background, how easy would it be for someone to be,

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let's say, nefarious or having nefarious intent and want to

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score a ton of cash and make it easy on themselves.

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So they you know, they get a job working for

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like Loomis and that's their in. So they really spend

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a lot of money and a lot of time checking

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the backgrounds of the individuals they hire. And that speaks

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to me a lot about Hector's character. Now, these armored trucks,

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they're very secure as well, as I just mentioned, they're

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like tanks. Among the features they have ballistic protection. These

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are heavy metal plates completely surrounding the vehicle and that

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means that the truck is armored to withstand gunfire. And

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in addition, the glass is bullet resistant. And y'all, it's

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a misnomer when people tell you glasses bullet per glasses,

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not bullet proof. Eventually, if you shoot a piece of

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even heavy armored glass enough times, it's gonna break and

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bullets will make it through. But it is very bullet

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resistant and it would take a lot of bullets to

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really get through there. These armored trucks also have onboard

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surveillance cameras in the vehicle, and those cameras they focus

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on blind spots around the vehicle when of course, they

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also have GPS, so these vehicles can be tracked at

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all times. And the staff that is hired by these

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armored truck companies, they're highly trained. They know how to

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deal with dangerous situations as well as how to de

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escalate situations if needed. And of course all of these

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guards carry firearms. You'd be crazy not to. So on

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December eighteenth of twenty twenty three, Hector was performing his

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duties as a Lumis security guard in the New Orleans area. Now,

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in this case, rather than picking up cash from the bank,

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the truck was delivering cash to the bank. They were

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actually servicing the ATM and they were going to refill it.

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And this was a New Orleans location of Chase Bank,

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and on board to be filled into that ATM machine

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with some two sixty to two hundred and sixty five

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thousand dollars. Now, for this cash delivery, there were two

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people in the armored truck. The driver a female by

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the name of a Jane Tredo, and Hector was the guard.

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That was the one who would actually leave the truck

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with the cash and fill the ATM. So on this day,

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Hector steps out of the truck, he starts to unload

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the cash, and as soon as he does that, a

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Chevy Tahoe pulls up and three armed men step out

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and they basically tell Hector to give them the money.

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He's like fuck, that pulls his gun and a shootout

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ensues right away and he insured is killed in broad daylight,

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and the robbers. They get away with two hundred and

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sixty to two hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. And

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the reason that I keep saying that is their various

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reports of exactly how much cash it was, but two

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sixty plus to be certain. And all this occurs in

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about a minute, y'all, from this guy pulling up to

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the ATM, probably thinking about what he's going to do

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over the weekend, to being dead. It happened that fast. Now,

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as I said, this was in broad daylight. There were

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a ton of eye witnesses, but one brave eyewitness to this.

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He actually he jumps in his truck and he follows

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these guys. He sees the men pull over at some point,

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and look, they knew this guy was following them because

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they took shots at him during this getaway. But at

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some point they do exit that tahoe. They get out

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and they get into a gray vehicle, which this guy

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sees all that, and he reports this to the police

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and he tells them, hey, the tahoe, here's where they

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jumped out of that and jumped in another vehicle. Police

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then go to that scene and they pick up that

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vehicle and the engine was still running when they picked

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it up, so they didn't even turn the car off.

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They basically jumped out of it. As you would think,

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this is a big deal. City of New Orleans lit

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up with the headlines of this happening, and family and

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friends of Hector would quickly come out in the media

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and they would talk about how Hector just loved his job,

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and they made a big point of saying he was

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never fearful. He wasn't someone that was ever worried about

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getting shot or anything like that. He said, Hey, if

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it happens, it happens. I love what I do. Just

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a very brave guy. Police they quickly hold a news

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conference and they released descriptions of these suspects, and they

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described all three as being five foot seven to five

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foot nine, all wearing dark jackets and hooded sweatshirts, and

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they said one of the suspects may have had dreadlocks.

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And the media then spoke to some people that were

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on that scene. There were witnesses to this. I mean

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there were people everywhere. This was eleven o'clock in the

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morning during a weekday when all of this went down,

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and they got some reactions. A firearms instructor who they

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talked to that actually lived a few houses away from that.

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Chase Bank said, Hey, it's Christmas. People get desperate and

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they'll do anything. This is New Orleans, after all, anything

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can happen in broad daylight. He went on to say

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that the rapid succession of the gunfire, which he estimated

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is about a dozen shots, sounded like he came from

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a semi automatic weapon with either a nine millimeter or

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forty caliber bullets. That was his take A technician with

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a Take five oil change that was across the street

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from the bank. He also said he heard about a

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dozen gunshots, and he said he saw cars stream out

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of the parking lot very quickly, and he said it

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wasn't the robbers that he saw running out of that

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parking lot, it was other customers. It freaked everybody out

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and they started clearing out of there for obvious reasons,

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and investigators when they corned off this scene, they laid

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about fifteen cones out to more bullet casings, so that

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would lead you to believe there were at least fifteen

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shots in that quick of an amount of time. And incidentally,

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later on it would be discovered that Hector was never

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able to return fire on these guys. Jim, did you

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see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell

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me that, let me tell you what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should

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do a podcast about it, and with that we did.

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in the description of this podcast. Now you may be wondering,

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what about a driver of the Loomis armored car. Well,

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she was unharmed. However, she was also pinned down as

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one of the three assailants that was shooting was firing

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in her direction the entire time, and that was intentional,

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that was planned, and that was to keep her from

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exiting that vehicle and being able to return fire herself. Now,

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this brave female's aunt came out later on and said

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her niece called her in tears, telling her, hey, my

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partner Hector was shot, and her aunt said she was crying,

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she was very overwhelmed and very much in grief. And

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it was I most leading me to believe that she

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kind of blamed herself for not being able to get

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out of that armored car and assist Hector. And obviously

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she there's no blame to be shown on her shoulders.

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I mean, if someone is pinning you down and you

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can't get out of a vehicle, it is what it is.

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Otherwise you would both be dead. So, just a few

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days after the incident took place, the New Orleans Police

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Department chief he comes out and he vows to catch

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the three gunmen responsible, and he also announces a fifty

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thousand dollars combined reward for information leading to the arrest

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of anybody involved. And that's important because people love to

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wrap people out when it comes to money, right, And

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if these guys have been running their mouth to anybody

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bragging about getting away with this, seemingly, fifty thousand dollars

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is a lot of money and a lot of enticement

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to possibly get somebody to telling you're ass and that

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was what the police were hoping for. However, time passes

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several weeks and there's no suspects, at least that the

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police are telling people. Then three weeks after the robbery,

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on January second of twenty fourteen, police were boom. Then

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just a few weeks after the robbery, on January second

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of twenty fourteen, police release a composite sketch of a

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person of interest, and they also released the fact that

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the witness who saw the robbers get out of the

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original car and into that gray car, he did manage

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to get a partial plate number that included the numbers

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one four one six' five four and it was a temporary.

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Tag so police at this point they weren't sure if

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this was a good lead or. NOT i, mean how

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hard is it to get a temporary? Tag was probably,

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stolen is what they were, thinking but, hey it's better than.

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Nothing and, then at least in front of the, public

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the trail seemed to run, cold and that is until

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police provided another, update and this was In april of twenty,

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fourteen four months after the, robbery and they announced that

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a screwdriver found inside the, tahoe which incidentally was. Stolen

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as a matter of, fact that screwdriver was used to

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break the steering column and enable that tyhoe to be hot. Wired,

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well they took that screwdriver and they tested it FOR,

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dna and they managed to PULL dna off of that

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screwdriver and link it to a man by the name

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Of Little Bear. George that's, Right lil B, Ear Little Bear,

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George and they did their homework on this before they

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Tied Little bear to it outside of THE dna and

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they talked to the owner and they, said, hey do

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you know Little bear did he work on your vehicle

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and maybe that's why HIS dna is on that. Screwdriver

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and the owners, like, NO i have no idea who

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this guy. Is so police start Retracing Lil bear's movements

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after the robbery and they discover that shortly thereafter he

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made kind of a big. Purchase, WELL i would say

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a lot of a big. Purchase he paid fifty thousand

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dollars cash for a. Vehicle and this wasn't a man

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that just walked around with fifty thousand dollars, Cash SO

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i told you a. Lot, also at this, time it

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came Out hector was killed with a two twenty three

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caliber rifle and that one of the bullets had shot

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him in the head and police said that that particular

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shot was fired from the. Vehicle so police have what

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appears to be a, suspect a solid suspect at this.

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Time and this is great because when you have a

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crime involving multiple people and you make that first, arrest

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what typically happens is that first, guy aulmost always is

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going to write out the other guys most times to

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get some sort of. Deal but there's one problem in

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the case A Little, bear and that is that he

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fled the state and. Police they had no idea Where

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Little Bear george, was and By december eighteenth of twenty,

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fourteen exactly one year since the shootout that Killed hector Trutch,

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as not a single arrest had been made in this.

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Case not saying they didn't work, it they just couldn't

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find anybody and they didn't have a whole lot of

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leads outside Of Little. Bear so time passes and people,

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forget and one of the things that's very important to

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do when you have these unsolved cases is to continue

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to do everything you can to keep them in the public,

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forefront the public frame of, mind and so anniversaries of

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these crimes are very important because they kind of reintroduce

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the case to people that may not have caught it

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the first time, around and it keeps a lot of

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these cases from going completely. Cold and so police did.

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That they came out on the. Anniversary as a matter of,

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Fact Hector trouchez family and friends came out and they

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held kind of a visual and all these, things trying

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to keep this case in the forefront of the public,

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mind but still no real needs to speak. Of, then

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a little over two years after the, robbery On february

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eleventh of twenty, sixteen police pull over a car in

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The New orleans area and they pull four people out

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of this. Car what had happened was this was state

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police and they have watched essentially this car conduct a

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drug deal with another, vehicle and they pull it over

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and they search it and they, find of course. Drugs

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they find fourteen thousand dollars in, cash some stolen guns and.

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Heroin now one of the men inside that car guess

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who it, Was Little Bear. George so police are. Ecstatic

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they just caught this guy THAT'S DNA is on a

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screwdriver that was in this crime from twenty, thirteen and

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they bring him back and they're, Thinking, okay this guy

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is going to sing like a fucking, canary and we're

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going to find out everything about this case that we don't.

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Know but the problem is apparently at this point Little

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bear he ain't. Cooperating he's not saying. Much at least

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that's what you would gather until nearly four years after the,

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robbery when the following article was released via The Baton Ridge.

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Advocate this was On november six of twenty, seventeen And

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i'm gonna read it for you. Quickly headline Says feds

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charge six in twenty, thirteen slang of an armored truck

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Driver hector Trusch, az capping four year pro and it

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goes on to, read nearly four years After, loomis armored

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truck Driver hector Trusch az was fatally shot during an

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elaborately plan hold up outside A carrollton area, bank prosecutors

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have secured an indictment charging five men and one woman

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in the. CASE a federal grand jury In New orleans

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returned a four count indictment Accusing Chuck woody who goes

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By Chuck, Ofamada Little, Bear George jeremy, Quote Pipe, Estevez curtis,

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Quote Blow Johnson, Junior robert quote lil Rob bromfield the

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third And Jasmine, theofhild of various roles in that robbery

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that left Trutch as dead in late twenty. Thirteen ofamana

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who is, Thirty george who is twenty, Eight esteves who

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is thirty, One johnson who is twenty, five And, bromfield

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who is twenty, four were all charged with plotting to

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obstruct interstate commerce by Robbing trouch as truck and with

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the deadly stick up, itself as well as using guns

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to commit the. Crime the indictment also Accuses george And,

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theiaffild his twenty four year old, girlfriend of obstructing a

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grand jury proceeding by destroying a cell. Phone all of the,

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defendants Except, bromfield who may be in The houston, area

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have been. Arrested theophil was released on a ten thousand

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dollars or. Bail the eleven page indictment capped a four

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year investigation into one of the most publicized unsolved killings

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in Recent New orleans, history and it came just a

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week After ACTING Us Attorney Dwayne evans office unfurled a

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separate indictment charging three other men in a similar deadly

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caper this year The may thirty first robbery attempt that

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Left loomis truck Driver james McBride faily wounded outside of

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Mid City, bank AND i may cover that one as,

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well BECAUSE i came across that when researching this. Episode

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it goes on to read last week's indictment also linked

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those three Suspects Armistead, keefer his Son Jerome, keefer and

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Dal Tony scott to a twenty fifteen hold up of

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A brince armored truck outside of bank near By You

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Saint john so unrelated case but very, similar goes on to.

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Say taken, together these indictments mean all of the major

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armored truck heist were port In New orleans since twenty

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thirteen have resulted in criminal. Charges all of the defendants

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charged with having a hand in the deaths Of trochz

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and McBride faced the possibility of the death, penalty though

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prosecutors can decline pursuing that, option and we'll get into.

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That the slang Of kenny Resident trutch has shot The

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New orleans, area occurring one week Before christmas in broad

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daylight outside of A chase bank On South carrollton And

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South Claiborne, Avenue the forty five year old native Of,

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honduras was gunned down after three mass riflemen oppress him

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while he was delivering money to the bank's drive through

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automated tailer. Machine the indictment did not say who the

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government believes those riflemen. Were it was several months after

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The truchess slayings before the names of two, Suspects george

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And theophild became. Public An april twenty fourteen federal court

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filing Reported GEORGE'S dna was detected on a screwdriver found

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in this stolen suv used to carry out the attack

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on Treutch. As it also Accused george of Fleeing louisiana

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with a group of men driving another car belonging to his.

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Girlfriend george later allegedly bought his girlfriend a new car

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after the, robbery and that was that fifty thousand dollars car.

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Purchase george has been in federal custody for more than

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a year awaiting trial alongside several other defendants on gun

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and drug charges in connection with the alleged drug deal

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in The French quarter In february of twenty. Sixteen, meanwhile

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the indictment in the trench ass case marks only the

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latest of several legal battles For. Ophamata at some, point

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two informants told The fbiophamaa had fatally shot a woman

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and a man who owed money to a friend Of

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opamada's Named Timothy. Webb the shootings took place At Webb's

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Seventh ward chop shop In april of two thousand and,

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eight and the victim's badly burned bodies turned up later

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in the back of a car that had been Tours

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according to multiple, sources these informants were speaking with federal,

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investigators who apparently were probing the Trunch has. Killing THE

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feds forwarded the allegations about the chop shop killings to

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The New Orleans. Police Opha minah And webb were arrested In,

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may and they are a waiting trial on state charges

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of second degree murder in the chop shop. Killings both

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have pleted not guilty to the slayings Of Jornelle sanders

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And Candae. Glard earlier in twenty, sixteen a grand jury

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Charged Opa minah and yet another, man Lydel, hinton with

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being involved in sex trafficking of a Minor hint and

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pleaded guilty in Late september to a reduced charge of

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transporting an individual across state lines to engage in prostitution

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and is awaiting sentencing Ofa mina meanwhile awaits trial in

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that case as. Well, obviously this guy's a total jerk, off.

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Right it's not clear to what Extent hinton is cooperating

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in the trafficking case or if he will factor into

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Troutch as. Prosecution Troutch as loved ones couldn't be reached

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for Comment. Monday, however on A facebook page set up

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in his memory that described their hope that investigators would

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eventually charge someone in that, Case hector has never. Forgotten

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the post said wishing authorities would find the heartless bastards

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that did, this and it looks like they did finally

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four years after the, robbery and there's movement on this.

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Case everyone is arrested that was not already in, jail

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with the exception of one, guy will Rob. Bromfield police

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just simply could not locate this. Guy but that is

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not and does not slow the prosecutions of the other

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individuals that were. Involved they're not gonna wait until they

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Find broomfield, Right and On august thirty, first twenty, eighteen

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THE feds announced they would be seeking the death penalty

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for three of the, Assailants Lil, Bear George Chuck, ofamaa

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And curtis Blow. Johnson THE fed singled Out Opa maaa

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as the triggerman during this, time and they said he

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was the one who actually killed Trutch. As and in

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