Baton Rouge area police and fire briefs for March 9, 2013

Robert Neff

Man, 24, accused
of burglary, shooting

Sheriff’s deputies on Friday arrested a man accused of burglarizing a house on Deer Creek Road in Zachary at about 10:45 p.m. on Dec. 22 and shooting at the homeowners when they returned.

Deputies booked Robert Neff, 24, with a last known address of 19178 Pride-Baywood Road, Clinton, into Parish Prison on one count each of attempted first-degree murder and aggravated burglary, according to an affidavit warrant.

When the owners returned home, one of the two masked burglars inside — either Neff or another man whom witnesses identified as a person named “L.J.”— fired as many as six shots at one of the victims before running off, the warrant says.

Woman arrested in Medicaid fraud case

A woman accused of submitting false timesheets and service logs indicating she provided services to clients on Medicaid “even though no services were rendered” has been arrested, according to an affidavit warrant.

Tymeckia Lavana Johnson, 36, 358 E. 14th St., Reserve, was booked Friday into Parish Prison on one count each of Medicaid fraud, filing or maintaining false public records and forgery, according to an affidavit warrant. The falsified timesheets and service logs were submitted to Johnson’s employer which, in turn, filed for Medicaid reimbursements, the warrant states.

Johnson admitted to investigators from the Louisiana Attorney’s General’s Office that she filed false timesheets for 18 days, for a total of 96 hours, over eight pay periods from June 3 to Sept. 30, the warrant says.

She also admitted she forged the signature of the disabled man who would sign off on her hours, the warrant said.

Seven people booked on DWI in EBR

Authorities arrested at least seven people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison between 2:30 p.m. Thursday and 2:30 p.m. Friday, booking records show.

Those booked and the counts against them:

• Catrice Bocard, 29, 4795 Ave. G, Zachary, second-offense DWI, resisting an officer, flight from officer, improper lane usage and battery of a police officer.
• Nathan Brewer, 32, 732 Keyes Drive, Grovetown, Ga., first-offense DWI, reckless operation of a vehicle and obstruction of an intersection.
• Brian Burkett, 22, 8333 Elliot Road, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI and reckless operation of a vehicle.
• Emily Lessard, 29, 1416 N. Acadian Thruway, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, driver’s license required, failure to signal/improper turn and speeding.
• Robert Ricard, 20, 2115 Pireur St., New Orleans, first-offense DWI, driving left of center and failure to maintain control/careless operation.
• Debra Roiger, 45, 5638 St. Gerard Ave., Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI, possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to maintain control/careless operation.
• Christopher Swanson, 25, 488 Polytech Drive, Baton Rouge, first-offense DWI and reckless operation of a vehicle.

Compiled from staff reports. To talk to a crime reporter at The Advocate, call [phone].

Comments

1) Comment by Costanza - 09/03/2013

Well said, Attila. JimmyCee2, you are an idiot.

2) Comment by Woody - 09/03/2013

attila, the last sentence in your comment below says all that needs to be said on this subject.

3) Comment by Attila - 09/03/2013

@JimmyCee2: I think I can give you the reason that 80% of the people in prison in this state are Black, Hispanic, and overwhelmingly poor. It is because they are uneducated, not motivated, have a work ethic that is demonstrably poor, and have been raised to believe that their lot in life is because they are a "victim" of racism..sorry pal, that dog won't hunt. You need to look elsewhere and that is from within. Tap dance around it as you may but you cannot refute the FACT that those people make up 80% of our La. prison population is because they commit 80% of the crime..see how easy that was.

4) Comment by JimmyCee2 - 09/03/2013

@tradewinns: Again -- you are wrong, but never in doubt. The opportunity for reparations paid to victims through probated sentences is immense, as many forward thinking judges will agree. We would see more of that, of course, if not for the wrong-headed incarceration proponents -- many of whom are who are making a MINT off of the system and the taxpayers. The rest of your weird rant is really unanswerable as painful ignorance always speaks for itself. So I'll just wish you well in your retirement. You sound like a pleasure to be around. Fortunately, life being what it is, you won't be around that much longer and we can move forward progressively with folks who know how to think.

5) Comment by tradewinns - 09/03/2013

JimmyCee2: you seem to want to ignore the cost of the crime and the inconvience, and even more, that crime cost the victims. i assure you the cost of the actual crime in La. is way pass $700 million yearly, and that isn't even including the cost of police services, other legal services THE VICTIM INCURS WHICH THE STATE DOESN'T PICK UP like they do for the criminals, all the medical care victims have to absorb due to the personal damage criminals cause and of course there's always the cost of reparing any property damage-criminals are not particularly carful when violating the law. there's always the bovine droppings concerning ethneticity and the forever fiscal insecurity of criminals. and then the drug culture is an excuse for anything goes cause i'm poor, black or hispanic, and hungry, gotta feed my kids or anything else some useless scum can dream up that satisfies some liberals' interpretation of where the liberal went wrong in their life that caused the criminal to go bad. based on your bias statements our "justice" system either lets white drug criminals go or never arrest them. i'm glad to hear that as i am white and retired so i need the money. could you tell me where to go to begin my new career as a drug dealer? all liberals should die.

6) Comment by JimmyCee2 - 09/03/2013

@tradewinns: Ohhhh, yeah -- let's just throw folks in jail and have them "work" to pay off their debts. Our state spends $450 million per year on funding the needs of Louisiana State University. It ain't enough, but that is what we spend. What do you think we spend as a state funding your bright idea that we throw everyone in jail? We spend $700 million PER YEAR. Every year. SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION BUCKS -- and most incarcerated folks are African-American or Hispanic and most are abysmally poor. 80% of the jailed (@$17,500 per inmate per year or thereabouts for the 40,000 we have in jail in this state alone) are there because of some drug-related offense. A huge percentage of those are stuck in the system because they cannot afford proper legal representation or because of idiotic mandatory sentencing minimums. So...since you're such a reliable advocate of throwing folks in jail, without really knowing anything more than what you read in poorly written newspaper stories... how much can we put you down for, pal? I think you need to pay a little more so you can put your money where your mouth is.

7) Comment by 8point6 - 09/03/2013

IMO, medicaid/medicare fraud is rampant.

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9) Comment by tradewinns - 08/03/2013

put ms. Johnson in prison till she works off the money she stole from the taxpayers, inc. interest. every cent she makes MUST go directly to pay back the money. doesn't want to work, fine, she doesn't need to eat either. if she never gets out, so be it. crime will continue to flourish till the punishment is perceived to outweight the value of the goods taken.