Warrant rescinded after suspect found serving in juvenile detention
Warrant issued for jailed teen
Red-faced NOPD rescinds arrest order
Saturday, May 31, 2008
By Laura Maggi
Eighth District police last week issued a warrant for the arrest of a 15-year-old boy on a charge of aggravated burglary — apparently without realizing he has been locked up in a juvenile facility since before the crime.
Police issued a news release Thursday that said Byron Laird broke into a Marigny home with four other juveniles and robbed two men at gunpoint, on May 17.
But Judge David Bell, the chief judge at the city’s juvenile court, on Friday morning questioned how the teenager could have been involved in any burglary, since he has been in the custody of the state Office of Youth Development since early March, serving a six-month sentence.
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