Crime & Safety
Ex-Louisiana Deputy Pleads Guilty To Theft In Drug Raid
Karl Newman seized drugs, guns and more than $6,000 during a raid in Hammond, prosecutors said. Newman and another deputy kept about $3,000.
NEW ORLEANS — A former sheriff's deputy in Tangipahoa Parish who was part of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration task force pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors to stealing thousands of dollars seized in a drug raid.
Karl Emmett Newman seized drugs, guns and more than $6,000 during an August 2015 raid of a Hammond, Louisiana, home, prosecutors said in court documents. Newman and another deputy kept about $3,000, prosecutors said.
Newman was indicted last year on a slew of federal charges. He pleaded guilty on Thursday and the charges were reduced to two under the agreement. He could face five years to life in prison. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)
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Johnny Domingue, a former deputy who was involved in the raid, was also indicted in the case and pleaded guilty to state drug charges, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
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