A Louisiana mayor was detained on Tuesday for his supposed hyperlink to a drug-trafficking examination carried out by authorities in his dwelling state.
Bogalusa Mayor Tyrin Truong, 25, was detained and billed with collaborating in purchases together with income from drugs offenses, solicitation of girl of the streets and unapproved use a movable, which describes purposefully taking or making use of 1’s private results with out their authorization.
“We have zero tolerance for wrongdoing, especially from public officials,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said. “I’m very proud of all our law enforcement agencies who worked on this investigation.”
Louisiana State Police said its Narcotics and Violent Crime Task Force launched an examination proper right into a drug-trafficking firm (DTO) working within the Bogalusa location in April 2024.
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Mayor Tyrin Truong of Bogalusa, La., was detained for purportedly collaborating in drugs purchases and getting girl of the streets. (Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office)
The process was carried out over various months in partnership with the twenty second Judicial District Court District Attorney’s Office, Murrill’s office and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
The examination situated the DTO was purportedly related to the circulation of opioids, top-quality hashish, THC objects and MDMA, to call a number of regulated unsafe compounds.
Investigators moreover came upon that contributors of the corporate utilized social media websites techniques to disperse drugs and deal with settlements, which enabled them to broaden their attain and prison job, authorities said.
The profit from drugs gross sales have been purportedly utilized to amass weapons, a number of of which have been dispersed to folks banned by regulation from having a weapon, and others have been related to fierce prison actions within the Bogalusa location.
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The mayor of Bogalusa, La., was detained Tuesday after an examination proper right into a drug-trafficking firm. ( iStock)
Law enforcement authorities gotten and carried out quite a few search and apprehension warrants, inflicting the apprehensions of seven declared contributors of the corporate.
Police moreover detained 24-year-old MacKenzie Lynn Cefalu; 24-year-old De-Saleem Wali Pittman; 22-year-old Dirul S. Pittman; 26-year-old Salehal-Dien Malike Pittman; 51-year-old Tonya Renee Stage; and 28-year-old Devan Michael Williams, all from Bogalusa.
Like Truong, the varied different 6 suspects have been detained for collaborating in purchases together with income from drugs offenses.
Additionally, Cefalu, Stage, Williams and D-Saleem Wali Pittman have been billed with conspiring to disperse a routine I managed unsafe compound, with the final moreover being billed with circulation of a routine II regulated unsafe compound.
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Bogalusa City Hall (Google Maps)
All 7 suspects have been scheduled proper into the Washington Parish Jail.
State authorities said many alternative different points and folks stay to be beneath examination in regards to the examination.
“We are going to continue to invest time and resources into helping the citizens of Bogalusa,” District Attorney Collin Sims said. “We are not finished.”
Truong’s bond was evaluated $150,000 on Tuesday mid-day, 8 in New Orleans reported.
Truong’s office didn’t promptly reply to Fox News Digital’s ask for speak in regards to the challenge.
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At age 23, Truong ended up being the mayor of Bogalusa in 2022, ousting town’s incumbent, Wendy O’Quin Perrette, that was chosen to her preliminary time period in 2014.
By successful the political election, Truong ended up being town’s youngest mayor in background along with amongst Louisiana’s youngest mayors ever earlier than, NOLA.com reported.
