20. August 2015
Left: Administrative First Assistant District Attorney David Kimball Right: Chief Felony Prosecutor Tara Hawkins
03. December 2014
On December 3, 2014 Judge Sharon Wilson convicted Darterious Kemon Bartie of First Degree Robbery. Bartie was convicted of robbing a man near his car at Place Vendome Apartments. The apartments are located at 1900 Prejean Drive in Lake Charles. The victim testified that Bartie and another man robbed him in the early evening of November 30, 2013. Following the verdict, Bartie pleaded guilty on a separate case. He pleaded guilty to Theft over $1500 in reference to an incident from March 22, 2013....
08. July 2014
On July 8, 2014 Judge Clayton Davis sentenced Armonta Dquon Hadnot to three consecutive life sentences and an additional 150 years with the Louisiana Department of Corrections. Hadnot received the mandatory life sentence on three counts of first degree murder after being convicted on July 2. Judge Davis order Hadnot to serve the maximum 50 year sentence on each count of attempted first degree murder he was also convicted of on July 2. All sentences are to run consecutively to each other, at...
02. July 2014
On July 2, 2014 a jury convicted Armonta Dquon Hadnot of three counts of First Degree Murder and three counts of Attempted First Degree Murder. Hadnot was convicted of murdering David Jermaine Galmore, 23, Jermiskian Jovan Arvie, 20, and Fitzgerald Tremayne Guillory, 20, on March 20, 2013. Hadnot and another male subject robbed six men at gunpoint before opening fire and killing three of the victims. The incident occurred at McMillin Park in Lake Charles. Judge Clayton Davis set sentencing for...