NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Kenner police on Monday (March 18) booked Danette Colbert with second-degree murder and announced the arrest of an alleged accomplice who they say fled to Florida following the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano days before Super Bowl LIX.
Manzano, 27, was found dead in a Kenner hotel room on Feb. 5, with his credit cards and cellphone missing.
Colbert, 48, was arrested the next day, after investigators say they found evidence of her using a credit card belonging to the victim. Police also recovered surveillance camera footage showing her with Manzano in the French Quarter before they returned to his hotel room together, and another video allegedly showing Colbert leaving Manzano’s room alone.
Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley on Monday revealed that an alleged accomplice -- Rickey White of Gretna -- was arrested last Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., by US Marshals, a US Secret Service task force and KPD detectives.
White is jailed in Broward County, awaiting extradition to Louisiana. Conley said White also will be booked with simple robbery, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds.
Colbert’s criminal history includes five felony convictions in Louisiana, including for fraud and theft, an arrest in Las Vegas, and open cases in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Tammany parishes. She is being prosecuted by the Louisiana Attorney General’s office in Orleans Parish, where a multiple bill has been filed seeking to deem her a habitual offender deserving of enhanced sentences.
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Kenner police chief Keith Conley said Colbert is a career criminal known for allegedly drugging victims and theft.
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