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The suspect in four recent robberies at knifepoint in the Carrollton area was arrested early Wednesday morning after a CrimeStoppers tip led police to his hideout in New Orleans East, authorities said. Trebor Blanton, 23, is accused of three robberies along Dublin Street between Aug. 25 and Sept. 2 and a Sept. 12 carjacking at Benjamin and Pine streets, all in broad daylight, police said.
Investigators have identified a suspect in the recent robberies at knifepoint along Dublin Street and are seeking the public’s help in locating him, authorities said. Trebor Blanton, 23, is wanted in connection with one of three recent robberies on Dublin Street and still considered a suspect in the other two, said Sgt. Chris Billiot of the NOPD persons-crime division. In each case, victims were followed a short distance by a suspect who then pulled a knife and demanded their belongings, police have said. Anyone with information about these cases should call Detective Jerry Baldwin or Sgt.
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.
Three people crashed just off Carrollton Avenue in car that police were chasing shortly after a deadly shooting in Central City, police said Monday night. (Updated 9:14 a.m. Tuesday.)
The shooting took place around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of South Liberty and St. Andrew streets, said NOPD Officer Janssen Valencia in a news release. Responding to reports of gunfire, police found a 23-year-old man shot multiple times, and he died at the hospital, Valencia said. The victim had been gunned down by three men in a silver vehicle that fled after shooting him, investigators learned, but two Orleans Parish Sheriff’s deputies heard the shots and saw the car speeding at the intersection of South Liberty and Josephine streets, Valencia said.
