Louisiana Cane Row Casino Holdup Leads to Eight Arrests, Investigation Continues
Three more suspects get been charged for the Sept. 29 robbery at Louisiana’s Cane Row Truck Stop & Casino, a local sheriff’s power revealed on Monday. Five additional suspects were arrested on Oct. 11 for the heist.
The most recent arrests include: Jose Luis Gordillo, 18, of Gulfport, Miss., Hector Omar Barahona, 20, of New Orleans, La., and Brayon Chinchilla Pacheco, 18, of Harvey, La., Assumption of Mary Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said inwards a statement.
The earlier arrests include: Jonathan Lopez, 19, also of Harvey, La., Roller Avila, 19, of Donaldsonville, La., Greg Norman D. Escalate, 18, of Terrytown, La., and an unnamed 17-year-old from Gretna, La.
Each was charged with armed robbery with a firearm. Also, a 16-year-old from Marrero, La., was supercharged with add-on after the fact to armed robbery with a firearm.
The alleged bandits stole an unspecified amount of money from the casino.
Most of the suspects remained in custody on Monday. The 16-year-old was released.
Pacheo is currently inwards custody inward Sunflower State incarcerated on several unrelated charges. He will face a bearing inward LA after the Kansas charges are addressed inward courts inwards that state.
The gaming dimension is located inward August 15 Parish on Highway 70. August 15 Parish is set some 79 miles W of New Orleans.
Deputies are investigating if any of the suspects are connected to other robberies, The Advocate, a Baton Rouge, La. newspaper, reported.
Two Casino Thefts inward April
Also, in an Apr holdup, a fillet of sole bandit robbed Louisiana’s Lucky Dollar Casino on Easter Sunday. He stole an unspecified amount of immediate payment from the Greensburg gaming property.
The surmise displayed what appeared to live a semi-automatic handgun during the heist. He and so fled southeasterly toward Old Highway 10.
He has in time to live caught.
Greensburg is nigh 48 miles north-east of Baton Rouge.
That same month, ane piece and II women stole an unspecified amount of cash, a firearm, and a cellphone from Boomtown Casino Hotel. It is situated inwards Bossier City, La.
The threesome had chequered into the casino at about 5:20 pm on April 4, KTAL, a local TV station, reported. a hotel employee mistakenly gave them a tonality to an tenanted room.
Instead of ratting the look desk around the error, they stole the cash, a keyless accounting entry gimmick for a Jaguar, sifted through and through luggage, and stole an iPhone 11.
The suspects then located the SUV inwards the casino lot. They used the remote paint to come in the SUV and took to a greater extent money and a handgun from the vehicle.
At nigh 9 pm that same night, they fled in a 2007 bleak Chevy Tahoe. They never daunted to checker out of the gambling casino hotel.
Charge After Body Discovered
Elsewhere in Louisiana, Alexis Noel Dauzat, 21, of Marksville, La., was charged with failure to seek assistance weeks after the find of a exanimate personify on Oct. 3 at Paragon Casino Resort. It is placed in Marksville.
The dupe is Giah Barrere, 17. The grounds of her expiry has in time to follow released by authorities.