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3,000 La. troops
ordered to Iraq
Slidell
targets
untidy
yards,
cars
Corey ‘C-Murder’ Miller
Second-degree murder
trial starts in August
Code enforcers visit
Sun Valley area first
By Kia Hall Hayes
St. Tammany bureau
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But C-Murder friend denied
role in past, prosecutors counter
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By Paul Purpura
West Bank bureau
See SLIDELL, A-6
THE LOUISIANA TIGERS
The 256th Brigade
(Mechanized) of the
Louisiana National
Guard is one of 15
“enhanced” combat
brigade units in the
National Guard. They
are considered as capable
as regular units. The
256th is made up of
three infantry battalions of 700 soldiers, an
artillery battalion, and a smaller specialist
support and headquarters company.
Based in Lafayette, the battalions are
scattered across the state. About 3,700
Louisiana Guard soldiers are training for
deployment.
t 1st Battalion, 141st Field Artillery, The
Washington Artillery – New Orleans
t 2nd Battalion 156th Infantry, Steel
Lightning – Abbeville
t 3rd Battalion, 156th Infantry Regiment,
Bayou Bandits – Lake Charles
t 1st Battalion, 156th Armor Regiment –
Shreveport
Witness:
Jefferson
took care
of sibling
Brother offered share
of profits, oilman says
By Jonathan Tilove
and Bruce Alpert
Washington bureau
In January
2002, Louisiana oil entrepreneur
John Melton presented thenRep. William Jefferson with an
agreement promising to give
Jefferson’s brother, Mose, 3 percent of any profits from oil, fertilizer and other deals Melton
was pursuing with the congressman’s help in Nigeria, according
to testimony Wednesday.
“He looked at it and dropped
it on his desk (and said), ‘This
won’t do,’ ” Melton said at the
nine-term Democrat’s corruption trial. Jefferson wanted
money for his brother up front,
Melton said. After a tense discussion, Jefferson asked Melton
to walk him back from the meet-
Rapper’s friend serving
life sentence in Georgia
Rapper’s
pal admits
shooting,
lawyer says
They’ll train in January for yearlong mission
Launching a citywide sweep
of properties for code enforcement violations, Slidell officials
are putting residents with tall
grass, junk cars, and debris on
notice: Clean up your act, or pay
the price.
City code enforcers on
Wednesday kicked off the initiative by going door to door in the
Sun Valley neighborhood off
Pontchartrain Drive. Officials issued 57 notices of violations with
a total of 63 infractions including high grass, trash, litter and
inoperable cars.
“This is only the first neighborhood of our citywide sweep,”
said Eric Giroir, the city’s director of building safety. “We are
Juan Flowers
MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE ARCHIVE
Craig Sparrow of Mandeville and Chris Hulin, left, of Breaux
Bridge patrol Baghdad in January 2005. They are part of the
256th Brigade Combat Team.
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By Paul Purpura
West Bank bureau
About 3,000 Louisiana
Army National Guard soldiers and their families, including several hundred in
the New Orleans area, have
received confirmation they
are going back to Iraq.
The 256th Brigade Combat
Team received orders this
past weekend to mobilize in
January for predeployment
training at Camp Shelby,
Miss.
The brigade will spend one
year in Iraq.
“The exact mission that
they’re going to be conducting will become known as we
get closer to the deployment,”
Maj. Michael Kazmierzak of
the Louisiana National Guard
said Wednesday evening. “I
don’t want to speculate on
what that might be.”
The last time the brigade
deployed, on a security mission in 2004, it lost 22 soldiers, mostly to roadside
bombs. Soldiers then watched
helplessly from overseas as
Hurricane Katrina pounded
southeast Louisiana in 2005.
They returned home
shortly after the storm, and
Three weeks before Corey “C-Murder” Miller
is retried on a murder charge, a friend of the rapper’s who is serving a life sentence in a Georgia
prison for homicide has admitted he was the
shooter in a Harvey nightclub seven years ago
that left a teenager dead, Miller’s attorney said.
Prosecutors, however, said the friend, Juan
Flowers, who was with Miller at the Platinum
Club on Jan. 12, 2002, denied he and the rapper
were involved in Steve Thomas’ killing.
Miller, 38, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Thomas, 16. A jury convicted
Miller in September 2003, but a judge gave him a
new trial after finding that prosecutors did not
See TRIAL, A-4
FINALLY, LIFTOFF
See TROOPS, A-4
ALEXANDRIA, VA. —
.. .
See JEFFERSON, A-3
Defender, investigator found in contempt
They tried to interview
children in rape case
By Gwen Filosa
Staff writer
A n O r l e a n s Pa r i s h j u d g e
Wednesday held a public defender
and a newly hired investigator in
contempt of court for trying to interview a 12-year-old girl and her
8-year-old sister in connection with
a rape case without permission from
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the children’s mother.
Investigator Emily Beasley left
Criminal District Court in handcuffs, arrested on a warrant for simple kidnapping that prosecutors
filed after a lengthy and acrimonious hearing over whether she had
the right to speak with the children
without their mother present.
The kidnapping charge accused
Beasley of detaining the two girls
last week for nearly an hour as their
mother slept inside their house.
Beasley took the girls across the
street, to the steps of a church,
where she let them listen to Michael
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Jackson songs on her iPod, according to the arrest report.
The arrest silenced the courtroom
briefly, as a deputy escorted the
young woman to Central Lockup.
She was released on a $4,000 personal recognizance bond within a
half-hour, court records show.
Beasley, who only weeks ago
walked through graduation ceremonies at Tulane University, started
working for the Orleans Parish public defenders program on June 9.
A month later, she broke the
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After being delayed five times, the space shuttle
Endeavour launches Wednesday from the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Crews will check
for possible damage to the orbiter after debris fell
off the external fuel tank. See story, A-11
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