On December 13, 2024, Belle Chasse Middle School 6th grade students and teachers were allowed to speak with and ask questions of our local elected officials. As part of the Project LEAD curriculum, students learn what happens when someone decides to break the law and is caught. District Attorney Charles Ballay welcomed the students and…
Christmas is a very special time of year and every family deserves to have a Merry Christmas. District Attorney Charles Ballay and his staff and the American Legion Post #329, under the leadership of Commander John Richardson, partnered to bring a little holiday cheer to several families in our parish. The Belle Chasse Garden Club,…
The District Attorney’s Office will be closing Thursday, November 28, 2024, and will reopen Monday, December 2, 2024, at 8:30am in observation of Thanksgiving Holiday.
**OFFICE CLOSURE** The District Attorney’s Office will close Monday, November 11, 2024, in observation of Veterans Day, we will reopen Tuesday, November 12, 2024, at 8:30am.
**OFFICE CLOSURE** The District Attorney’s Office will close Tuesday, November 5, 2024, in observation of Election Day, we will reopen Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 8:30am.
The District Attorney’s Office will close Thursday, October 31, 2024, at 3:00pm, in observation of Halloween and remain closed November 1, 2024, in observation of All Saint’s Day, we will reopen Monday, November 4, 2024, at 8:30am.
BELLE CHASSE, October 22, 2024 Charles J. Ballay, District Attorney for the Parish of Plaquemines, reports that on October 22, 2024, a Plaquemines Parish Grand Jury convened and returned a true bill of indictment on Victor Battle, age 21, from Port Sulphur, Louisiana. Battle was indicted for Second Degree Murder and Possession of a…
On Thursday, October 17, 2024, a jury verdict was returned in Plaquemines Parish against Jose Moreno for Aggravated Rape. The defendant was accused of orally raping a 3-year-old in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. The victim testified at trial and detailed how the defendant forced him to perform oral sex on him when he was a small…
Charles J. Ballay, District Attorney for the Parish of Plaquemines, reports that on October 1, 2024, Joseph Lafrance, age 56, from Braithwaite, Louisiana, plead guilty as charged to Aggravated Battery shortly before his trial by jury set on the same day. On April 2, 2023, an adult female victim contacted P.P.S.O. to report that Lafrance…