Louisiana’s wife linked to the death of a Super Bowl reporter faced a series of accusations of other men who accuse her of drug and steal them, and should not have been on probation when the journalist was found dead last month, said the main prosecutor of the state.
Danette Colbert, 48, was sentenced in October for positions of computer fraud, theft and illegal transmission of monetary funds in relation to a November 2021 scheme that the victim said he pointed to his life savings.
David Butler said in the judicial records and an interview with NBC News that Colbert left him dead after drugs and steal him from more than $ 80,000 in Cryptocurrencey in the French neighborhood of New Orleans. He did not receive the drug test, and there were no charges linked to that drug accusation.
The past fall, Colbert was sentenced to five years of probation and was ordered to pay Butler $ 50,000 in restitution, judicial records in the sample of the case.
The Office of the District Prosecutor of the Parish of Orleans is working to revoke that sentence and impose a more severe, the Louisiana Attorney, Liz Murrill, said on Monday. The AG said Colbert “was not eligible for probation” when it was sentenced.
In the statement, Murrill pointed out the state of Colbert as a “usual offender”, a classification that allows prosecutors in the State to seek more rigid sanctions based on the criminal record of a defendant.
In a separate statement, Jefferson’s parish district prosecutor Jason Williams said he requested Murrill’s help because Colbert’s alleged crimes cover multiple jurisdictions.
“I firmly believe that this approach will guarantee the most unified and focused prosecution of each of these serious cases,” Williams said.
Colbert’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comments. A lawyer who represents it in a separate case said last month that he should not be judged by his criminal history.
A judge’s spokesman who issued the sentence in November refused to comment and ordered NBC News to the impact statement of Butler’s victim.
In that statement, Butler said that “continuous contempt of Colbert for others” should have caused the maximum prison sentence allowed.
Before Colbert’s condemnation, he declared himself guilty in two previous cases involving similar accusations of fraud and robbery in the nearby Jefferson parish, as shown in the judicial records. While waiting for the trial in the case of Butler, she was accused in Clark County, Nevada, with a largeft and managing a drug to help in the commission of a serious crime in two separate cases.
According to Daniel Lippmann, the lawyer who represented her, the positions in Nevada were dismissed after the victims said they did not want to testify in the Court, Associated Press reported.
In two other cases, the alleged victims told NBC News who believe they were attacked by Colbert in October 2021 after she passed an Uber driver in the French neighborhood. The men went to the authorities, according to a police report and a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department, but no charges have been submitted in any of the cases.
New Orleans police said the agency investigates each and every case presented with it. A suspect has not been identified in any of the cases.
Last month, Colbert was accused of fraud and other real estate crimes linked to the death of Telemundo reporter, Adan Manzano. She has been accused of simple theft, bag grip, computer fraud, illegal transfer of monetary funds, fraud of access devices, bank fraud.
Manzano’s body was discovered in a hotel room in Kenner, west of New Orleans, on February 5, and a preliminary toxicology report showed that he had a drug commonly sold under the Xanax brand in his system at the time of his death. He did not have a recipe for the medicine, said a police investigator during an audience last month, and the drug was found in the House of Slidell in Colbert.
The authorities have said that Colbert could face additional crimes after an autopsy and toxicology tests are completed in the case.
After Manzano’s death, Kenner’s authorities said they presented a dozen complaints from people who believe they or a loved one may have been victims of Colbert’s, including the death of a Maryland man who did not respond in a hotel room in a hotel room in December. That research is still ongoing.
