Car smashes through home on Cadiz near Claiborne

A car plowed through two walls of a home near the intersection of Cadiz and Claiborne around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, sending the driver to the hospital but without injuring anyone else, witnesses said. Mike Zeininger, 30, said he was standing on his porch about three doors up from Claiborne Avenue when he heard the sound of a car peeling out. He looked toward Claiborne and saw the car begin over the sidewalk and head diagonally across the parking lot, picking up speed, and thought it was taking some sort of bizarre shortcut onto Cadiz, he said. Instead, the car continued across Cadiz and directly for his neighbor’s house, a small, one-bedroom home in the backyard of a larger two-story apartment house that fronts on Claiborne, Zeininger said. The car smashed through a wooden fence, narrowly missing a tenant’s red Ford Focus in the rear driveway, crashed through the front wall of the small house and burst through a side wall before coming to a stop.

Uptown police battle wave of muggings

An aspiring chef was stabbed just off Prytania and a bank manager was robbed in his car while driving through Fontainebleau in a wave of seemingly unconnected muggings around Uptown New Orleans over the last week, police said Wednesday.

Nola.com: Murder conviction in 2009 Uptown shooting

Despite his pleas of self-defense, Burtell Thomas, 27, will be sentenced Oct. 5 to a mandatory life term in prison on a second-degree murder conviction for shooting 31-year-old Lashawn Butler six times on June 25, 2009, at Butler’s Cadiz Street home near Loyola Avenue, according to Gwen Filosa of the Times-Picayune.

Police: Carjacking and armed-robbery suspects arrested after chase

Two teenagers’ crime spree took them across town Thursday night, beginning with a carjacking in the Mid-City, followed soon after by a robbery at gunpoint in the Uptown, and ending by crashing their stolen car after a police chase through Audubon, officers said. The night’s events began about 11 p.m. at the intersection of St. Peter and David streets, when a white Honda Accord was stolen in a carjacking, according to an email alert from the New Orleans Police Department. At 12:45 a.m., police said another man had just parked his own vehicle on the 1800 block of Cadiz Street when he was approached by a stranger wielding a semi-automatic handgun who said, “This is a robbery; don’t turn it into a murder.” The man with the gun took his victim’s belongings and left on foot down South Saratoga Street.

Pedestrian’s purse snatched by pistol-toting bicyclist on St. Charles

A woman walking on St. Charles Avenue was robbed at gunpoint of her purse by two men on bicycles Thursday evening, police said.The woman was near Cadiz Street about 9 p.m. when two men rode up to her on bicycles, according to a New Orleans Police Department email alert. One pulled out a small silver handgun and snatched away her purse, and then the bicyclists took off on St. Charles toward downtown, police said. The robber is described as a black man in his late teens with shoulder-length dreadlocks under a red baseball cap, wearing black clothes and riding a BMX bicycle.

Pedestrian's purse snatched by pistol-toting bicyclist on St. Charles

A woman walking on St. Charles Avenue was robbed at gunpoint of her purse by two men on bicycles Thursday evening, police said.The woman was near Cadiz Street about 9 p.m. when two men rode up to her on bicycles, according to a New Orleans Police Department email alert. One pulled out a small silver handgun and snatched away her purse, and then the bicyclists took off on St. Charles toward downtown, police said. The robber is described as a black man in his late teens with shoulder-length dreadlocks under a red baseball cap, wearing black clothes and riding a BMX bicycle.