In August, the WBRZ Investigative Unit showed you David Chenevert was granted parole after killing two people and was sentenced to life. He was released from prison.

In the past 30 days, Babin said two cases have come up in his jurisdiction where one man, Lucas Roddy, was denied parole. Another individual Jerome Derricks is set to have a hearing next month.

"A lady who was a waitress was leaving work, had car trouble and the guy who was going to help her jump her car off brutally beat her to death with a tire tool," Babin said.

Next month the parole board will decide if he gets a shot at freedom despite receiving a life sentence.

"We barely have the resources to keep up with the new stuff, to have them go back and revisit these cases where appeals have been exhausted," Babin said. "It's over."

In addition to reforms that Babin said need to be made to keep the streets safe, he believes there also needs to be some truth in sentencing.

"When someone leaves that courtroom with a 30-year sentence or a 40-year sentence, we need a calculation to put out to the public about what will be served," Babin said. "That is transparency... if someone gets life imprisonment, and it's not really life, victims and the public should be told."

BATON ROUGE - The WBRZ Investigative Unit learned the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control tower was unmanned at the time a BRPD helicopter with two officers went down Sunday morning, killing them.

WBRZ has learned that the FAA staffs BTR’s airport control tower. Employees work there for 19 hours a day, but between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m., no one is in the tower.

Flight data shows the BRPD chopper took off around 2:26 am and crashed at 2:38am. It was in the air for 12 minutes. During that window, it appears no one was tracking the flight from the control tower.

The crashed helicopter was found sometime before noon on Sunday— at least eight hours after it went down. A retired FAA crash investigator said this is not unusual.

"A helicopter like that on patrol and flying low, you don't have to be talking to anyone or on someone's radar, it depends where you are at," John Abel a former FAA crash investigator said. "If you are near Baton Rouge, you may be on radar. If you are in their airspace they will know you are there. If you are out over a cotton field and down low, they aren't going to know you are there unless you talk to them."

The officers were in pursuit of a suspect, according to sources.

The helicopter crashed behind Norris Cummings' house. He said it was one of the loudest bangs he's ever heard in his life.

"I heard a car pass first on 190 zooming," Cummings said. "I know it was going 100 miles per hour. Helicopter came across, within a minute, I heard the boom."

A preliminary report sent to the FAA indicates the tail hit a tree, causing the helicopter to land upside down. It's not yet clear if there were any other issues that led to the crash.

BRPD identified the officers as Sgt. David Poirrier, 47, and Cpl. Scotty Canezaro, 38.

Autopsies are pending for both men. Because they died in an air crash, the FAA is sending a special autopsy kit to the coroner's office which will have to be used as part of the investigation. Those kits are supposed to arrive sometime Tuesday, the West Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office said.

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Residents in Baton Rouge called them an eyesore.

The area in question is bordered between North Boulevard and Government Street not far from the Electric Depot. A total of six lifeboats were dropped off a few years ago. Satellite imagery from space shows the lifeboats first arrived sometime in 2020.

Some of the boats bear the name "Ocean Voyager." Maritime records show a vessel bearing that name carries passengers.

"It's trifling and trashy to be sitting up on the road like that on a lot like it is," Jacqueline Arthur said.

The letter that was sent to the owner and tenant was sent 10 days after the WBRZ report. It gives them until April 3, 2023 to remove the boats or they'll have to appear in court on April 6, 2023.

Arthur said she's been looking at the boats for years, wondering why the city allowed them to just sit there like that.

"When I saw it, I said that ain't nothing but a bunch of junk that they left on the side of the road," Arthur said. "I thought they were going to use it for something and just saw it sitting up there."

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Angela Clayton Chelette was pulled over last week for speeding, specifically driving 58 in a 45. Chelette's mouth got the best of her, and when the Brusly Officer pulled her over, she's heard on his body camera telling him, "there's people out of their cars at the light. Arguing or something."

The officer asked for her license and registration, and she produced her former employer's work badge at the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office. She said she was a former employee and now works at the Assessor's office.

Following WBRZ's reports Thursday, West Baton Rouge Parish Assessor Chris Guerin reached out and confirmed Chelette is not an employee of the office.

"For the record Angela Chelette is not currently employed by the West Baton Rouge Parish Assessor’s Office and to the best of my knowledge she has never been an employee of the Office," Guerin said.

The officer let her go, and that's when she told him again about the incident up the road.

"At the light," Chelette said. "There were people arguing."

The officer got back in his unit to find there was no such incident. Four days passed since that stop, and officers had signed warrants in hand. She was taken to jail and booked for false communication to raise an emergency response (felony), false impersonation of a peace officer (felony), public intimidation (felony), and speeding.

While the officers were booking her, jailers reported that she was still running her mouth.

"After tonight, you won't have a job. Won't have a job much longer," they heard her say.

That's where the additional charge of public intimidation came in.

The sheriff's office said Chelette resigned last year. She was employed at the work release facility. Chelette told the Brusly officer she now works for the assessor's office. The clerk of court said despite her being booked Monday, nothing had showed up in their system yet.