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Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto on Wednesday announced the termination of a deputy who admitted using the department's Flock automated-license plate recognition system to search the license plate belonging to his former fiancée "several thousand times" over the course of several years. 

The deputy, who was identified by the department as Nathan Rome, is not facing any criminal charges, such as cyberstalking, after the fiancée declined to make a criminal complaint. Officials said the fiancée told investigators she was aware of the searches and that she did not consider herself a victim.

"She was aware that he was doing it. She gave us a statement that she was aware that he was doing it," Lopinto said Wednesday. "There was no history of domestic violence between the two, no stalking incidents."

St. Tammany President Mike Cooper vetoed two controversial rezoning measures approved last week by the parish council, a rare move that could throw two planned subdivisions in the Goodbee area into doubt.

The subdivisions are set to be located on a 264-acre tract and a smaller 31-acre tract that together were approved to add up to 800 homes. Area residents showed up to chambers en masse at the council's monthly meeting Thursday to try and persuade the council to vote down the measures, saying any new construction in the area could pile on to existing flooding and traffic problems.

Instead, the large tract for the “Isadora” subdivision was approved by an 8-6 vote and the smaller tract for the “Esperanza” subdivision was approved 10-4.

Sounds like the arrest actually happened in Covington.

“Federal agents knocked on a door in Covington last summer, searching for a woman wanted for an unusual crime.
Ariel Kornienko had been hiding a second life from her children and ailing mother. To hundreds of closely vetted visitors in secretive chat rooms, she was the “Baronness” — a leader in a dark underworld whose members draw delight from videos of live apes being burned, flayed and sexually tortured.

In an interview with a U.S. Department of Homeland Security special agent that morning and in documents filed later in federal court, Kornienko laid out new revelations into the “monkey hate community” she had come to inhabit.

The groups, which found a home on the encrypted website Telegram, had their own terminology — chat rooms were “kitchens,” videos “sauce.” Rival group leaders doxed each other. Members thirsted for a steady diet of ever-lurid videos, which called for connections to overseas traffickers willing to torture living creatures on camera. Most of the footage features Macaques, an ape native mostly to Southeast Asia and known for vivid, humanlike facial expressions.”