Baton Rouge Casino Robberies Continue, Elderly Man Latest Victim
A 29-year-old alleged brigand was arrested earliest this calendar week for a robbery cobbler's last month at Louisiana’s L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge. He tussled with an 80-year-old adult male before running cancelled with his wallet, law said.
The elderly victim was in the lobby, after disbursement to a greater extent than 5 hours at the casino, when someone started to seize his billfold out of a endorse pocket, police force add. The deuce men struggled. But the suspect, later identified as Jakyre Foreman, 29, got make of the pocketbook before fleeing, WBRZ, a local TV station, reported.
Soon, the victim started to feel chest pains. He took medication for his bosom condition. When his health situation settled, he informed deputies nearly the Nov. 22 robbery. The victim’s granddaughter translated for the man.
The Orient Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office (EBRSO) later arrested Foreman of Baton Rouge. They had found witnesses to the law-breaking and reviewed surveillance picture to name the suspect. He seen walking inward the way of the casino’s parking garage. He was wearing a “hoodie-style jacket,” authorities said.
Foreman also allegedly pushed the victim “against the glass in windows and and so onto the ground, all piece trying to catch his wallet,” according to an affidavit, quoted by BRProud, a local word site.
He is charged with attempted robbery and assault and battery of persons with infirmities, WBRZ said. He was inwards custody at the eastern United States Baton Rouge Parish Prison as of Tuesday. His bond paper was $11,000, BRProud adds.
Prior Robberies at Casino
In unrelated crimes taking station in June 2020, a adult female was supercharged for II armed robberies in the parking lot, also at L’Auberge Casino inward Baton Rouge. She was identified as Cori Leger. It is alleged she wore a disastrous protective face block out and a wig in both incidents, WAFB, a local TV station, reported.
In unity robbery, she allegedly displayed a firearm and escaped with cash. During the sec instance, the robber failed to catch any cash. But she was later apprehended.
Police found she had a black, realistic BB gun inward her waistband. She also had mace and a bedaze gun, constabulary revealed. The outcome of that grammatical case was non now known as of Thursday.
2016 Kidnapping, Robbery
Earlier, inward November 2016, constabulary arrested a adult male who allegedly kidnapped and robbed a virile gambler, also at L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge. The surmise was identified as Saint Matthew the Apostle Lyndon Baines Johnson Jr., 32, of Baton Rouge.
The victim was inwards Baton Rouge to see the Louisiana State University vs. Camellia State football game game. He stayed at the casino-hotel for the weekend. While on the casino floor, he won near $800.
Later, inwards the hotel’s elevator, Lyndon Johnson allegedly warned him, “I have got a gun. Do what i say.” Dr. Johnson so ordered the dupe to have into a car, which was goaded to another location inwards the city, police force said.
Johnson took some of the victim’s money to purchase illegal drugs, constabulary said. He later stole personal items from the victim before letting him out of the car, law add. Dr. Johnson was later charged with aggravated snatch and armed robbery, the Advocate, a LA newsprint reported.
It is unclear how the pillowcase was adjudicated in the local court of justice system.
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