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Ring worth $160,000 recovered after theft from Walnut Street

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A diamond ring worth $160,000 stolen from an Uptown home was recovered in a pawn shop after police found a man in a stolen car with a pawn ticket for its sale. The ring and a $40,000 pair of earrings were stolen Nov. 9 after being left in a cup on a countertop in a Walnut Street home in the Audubon Park area, said Sgt. Warren Keller of the NOPD Second District. Police recently stopped Michael Ladner, 31, for allegedly driving a vehicle that had been stolen, and found the pawn shop tickets for the jewelry inside.

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Six new photos of “people of interest” in Walnut Street home-invasion

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Police have released new images of two men whom investigators want to question in connection with a home-invasion robbery on Walnut Street earlier this month. The photos, captured by a gas station video system, show the two individuals faces’ more directly than earlier surveillance photos of them in a Whitney bank. Two victims were bound by duct tape at gunpoint by two masked men and a woman inside a house in the 400 block of Walnut Street the evening of Aug. 6. The intruders addressed the victims by name as they ransacked the house, Sgt.

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Unusual old money could provide break in Walnut Street home invasion

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A trail of stolen Depression-era dollar bills that are unusual in appearance but not especially valuable led police this week to surveillance images of two men they want to question about a violent home-invasion robbery earlier this week. Two masked men and a woman broke into a home Saturday evening in the 400 block of Walnut Street and bound two victims with duct tape at gunpoint after subduing one with a stun gun, police have said. The robbers left with jewelry, silverware and a stack of old currency, such as $10 bills from the 1930s, police said. On Monday, a Westbank branch of Whitney bank reported two young men who came in, asked how much a $10 bill from 1934 was worth, and then got nervous and left, said Sgt. Chris Billiot of the NOPD Second District persons-crimes division.

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Walnut Street residents bound, robbed at gunpoint inside home

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Two people were bound by duct tape at gunpoint Saturday evening while their Walnut Street home was robbed by masked intruders, police said. From the NOPD report:
On Saturday, August 6, 2011 at approximately 10:45 pm the victim entered his residence located in the 500 block of Walnut Street, leaving his front door open. While inside he was confronted by an unknown male, wearing dark clothing, and a black ski mask armed with a black semi-automatic handgun. The suspect asked the victim where the safe was located, then used a stun gun to subdue and tied him to a chair using duct tape. A short time later another victim entered the residence and was confronted by an unknown female who produced a silver semi-automatic handgun and pointed it at the victim.