A New Orleans cop was fired for dipping below NOPD's moral standards after he bounced a check, and got caught eight years later. Jeremy Wilcox, who worked with the department's Second District, wrote a bad check for more than $2,000 in St. Charles Parish and took his license plate off his truck, the department announced Tuesday.

One of the alleged gunman involved in a quintuple shooting last May, which left a 5-year-old girl and a mother of three dead, and wounded several others, has been arrested, New Orleans police announced Monday. The night of May 29, 2012, 19-year-old Tyron Harden and two other accomplices allegedly shot a spray of bullets toward a birthday party in the 1200 block of Simon Bolivar Avenue.

Five members of the local gang “MMG” were indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday for selling crack and illegally possessing firearms, U.S. Attorney Dane Boente's office announced Tuesday. The men, who operated the drug ring out of the 7th Ward, were found to have used the guns and distributed the illicit substance, to “further drug trafficking” activity in that area, according to Boente's office.

The NOPD broke up a Texas-based prostitution ring Tuesday after tracking down a woman on the classified website backpage.com, according to police reports. A man and two women from Waco, Texas, were arrested Wednesday for allegedly bringing three women to New Orleans to work for sex out of a CBD hotel. One man, 23-year-old Eddie Sowells, faces human trafficking charges in connection with the case. 

The City of New Orleans wants to pull out of the federally-mandated reforms that it signed off on for the New Orleans Police Department. Late Thursday, the City filed a motion to vacate the consent decree that laid out a roadmap for hundreds of changes in conduct, procedure and training at the NOPD. The move marks an about-face for Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration, which was a major proponent of the reforms.

Two men were hauled in this week for a late-December slaying in Treme, according to New Orleans police. Rashad Bakewell, 24, and Blake Ricks, 23, were booked in connection with the Dec. 27 murder of Demetrius Adams on Dec. 27, 2012. Adams, 28, was found gunned down at the corner of St. Ann and N. Dorgenois St.

While everyone loves a good Halloween scare, the streets of New Orleans are notorious for giving people more to fear than well-executed makeup and realistic costume props. However, the NOPD arrested four murder suspects over the last 24 hours, making this year's post-Halloween postmortem mostly about who was hauled in.

by Erica Boni

Tonight marks the 29th annual night out against crime, an event initially organized by Officer Kelly Marrione of the NOPD in an effort to increase communication between district officials and the people and neighborhood organizations in the areas they patrol. The national Night Out took place on October 7 in the rest of the country, but was postponed until tonight in New Orleans to take advantage of the cooler weather.  

NOPD officers chased down a pair of men who fled a traffic stop Friday night in the French Quarter, and found guns and drugs in their car. According to police, Officer Brett Mathes saw 20-year-old Trey Mitchell run a stop sign near the corner of Bourbon and Bienville, and pulled the car over. Mitchell and the car's passenger, Damien Abrams, bolted from the car, leading police on a foot chase, but were apprehended by Mathes and other officers in the area.

Despite Mayor Mitch's warning that "if you loot, you wear an orange suit," some instances of storm pilfer have been reported.