Feb 5, 2010 - It was the screams in the background of a phone call from earthquake-devastated Haiti that riveted Sidney D. Torres IV, president and chief operating officer of SDT Waste of Chalmette.

Torres was on the phone with a friend, Eric Klein, who was in Haiti working on the relief effort and was discussing with Torres the need for more help for victims there.

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Feb 3, 2010 - The major retail store Wal Mart reopened its doors to shoppers in Chalmette on Wednesday, Feb. 3 after more than four years of being closed since Hurricane Katrina. A ribbon-cutting marked the occasion, with Anna Mora, a market assistant, wielding the scissors as other store Wal Mart employees assisted. At right on the second row is store general manager Jim Craddock and to his right is St. Bernard Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann ...

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Feb 3, 2010 - A Chalmette man was booked Monday, Feb. 1, with possession with intent to distribute 184 methadone pills, with a street value of $920, and is the largest such seizure in St. Bernard Parish in more than a year, sheriff’s officials said.

The pills are different from the old, more potent methadone wafers which were discontinued after being associated with numerous drug overdose deaths when mixed with other pain pills. The 184 pills were more than the number of methadone tablets seized by the Sheriff’s Office for all of 2009, officials said.

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Jan 29, 2010 - Three St. Bernard Parish sheriff's detectives, (first photo - second, third and fourth from left), Lt. Richard Mendel, Sgt. Donald Johnson and Capt. Mark Jackson, received the Life Saver Award from the St. Bernard/Arabi Kiwanis Club in recongition of their solving the high-profile Christmas church burglary at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Violet, resulting in an arrest and recovery of 65 stolen presents meant for the needy.

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Jan 28, 2010 - A man has been arrested in Shreveport in the aggravated rape of a St. Bernard Parish juvenile girl that happened in 1998, in a case in which a warrant for his arrest was issued a month ago after a woman now in her early 20s came forward because, she said, the man had been trying to reach her through a social networking site.

St. Bernard Chief Deputy Sheriff James Pohlmann said John Jason Wallace, 40, who had most recently been living in the Shreveport area, was arrested there on Jan. 21 on charges of obscenity and trespassing and will also be held on the arrest warrant from St. Bernard Parish.

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