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Drug Rehab Louisiana
is here to help people with drug and/or alcohol abuse problems in Louisiana. find treatment options. Due to our diverse networking system we can find a treatment option tailored to each individuals specific situation and needs. We are able to provide all phases of recovery included but not limited to, alcohol and/or drug intervention, drug and/or alcohol detox, in-patient treatment, out-patient treatment, short term treatment (30 days or less), long term treatment (90 days or longer).
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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Louisiana. At Drug Rehab Louisiana we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Louisiana, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Louisiana. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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We realize that each individual in Louisiana. is in a different financial situation and we will find treatment options for each individual regardless of their financial situation. No matter what your financial situation everyone will receive the treatment help they are looking for.
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Louisiana murder mystery unraveling in court filingsFirefighters made the gruesome discovery June 21 as they turned their hoses on a burning Cadillac and forced open the trunk. Inside was the body of a man, shot in the head and chest. His wallet contained $3 and a driver's license identifying him as Raymond Johnson, 72, of Katy, Texas.
At first, the discovery presented police with a puzzling whodunit: How had the body of an elderly man from the Houston suburbs with no obvious local connections ended up on a dead-end street in an industrial area at the edge of Louis Armstrong International Airport? Even when a Jefferson Parish, Louisiana grand jury on Sept. 4 charged Orlanda Smith, 26, of Brookhaven, Miss., with Johnson's murder, authorities disclosed little about the investigation.
Now, however, details of Johnson's final hours have emerged in court documents, pieced together from police interviews, surveillance video, telephone records and other evidence. They show that Kenner detectives followed a 400-mile trail of marijuana and money to determine Johnson was something other than a kindly senior citizen out for a drive, but instead a mid-level drug dealer whose life ended violently when he tried to collect a debt from an associate less than half his age.
"We feel it was drug-related based on the evidence that we have," said Kenner Louisiana police spokesman Capt. Steve Caraway. "We can't go into specifics about what took place."
No-nonsense
Raymond Johnson was the father of three children, ages 4, 6 and 7, as well as a 50-year-old son from a previous marriage. A retired bus driver for the city and county of San Francisco, he liked to drive, tinker with machinery, buy and sell property, and gamble, said his wife, Melissa Johnson, 42.
"He was very generous. He would give people money on the street. He was a very proud person who stood for what he believed in," she said. "It's hard for me to believe that he was involved in anything that was illegal."
But he wasn't the type of man who stood for getting stiffed.
"He was a tough guy who wouldn't take lip from anyone," said his oldest son, Raymond Johnson Jr., who lives in the Seattle area.
No stranger to the drug world, the elder Johnson had been convicted on narcotics charges in San Francisco, police said, before moving to Texas in 1999. His oldest son, who was raised by grandparents, said Johnson used to deal cocaine and had been to prison numerous times. Indeed, police confirmed the identity of the body in Kenner by matching the fingerprints with those in Johnson's criminal record.
Despite his no-nonsense presence, Johnson "wanted to do good for people and do good by people," his son said.
Melissa Johnson agreed. She said she "didn't see any drugs" during her nine-year marriage to Johnson, but she also knew him as a man who had little patience for disrespect. She said she thinks that whoever killed Johnson didn't act alone.
"He had a strong spirit. One person couldn't have done such a terrible thing to him," she said.
In the early hours of June 21, Johnson slid behind the wheel of his dark green 1992 Cadillac Eldorado and set off from his home in Katy. Witnesses later told police detective Keith Forsythe that Johnson was headed to Brookhaven to collect money from Smith, and that he took about $1,000 with him, according to a police affidavit filed in 24th District Court in Gretna.
A friend of Johnson's told police that Johnson for some time had been buying marijuana on credit in Houston and delivering it to Smith. But when Johnson's suppliers started pressuring him to pay up, he needed to collect cash from Smith to get them off his back.
On the road, Johnson called his two sisters and told them he was "driving to a town in Mississippi to collect approximately $20,000 from someone," according to the affidavit. A surveillance camera at the Forest Gold Truck Plaza & Casino in Amite, 71 miles from Brookhaven, captured an image of Johnson at 12:51 p.m.
Between 2 and 2:30 p.m., his wife said, she called him on his wireless phone to tell him that someone had made an offer on property they had put up for sale. It was the last time he spoke on that phone, according to the affidavit.
"He was in a good mood," Melissa Johnson said. "He was really jazzed about that."
By that time, Johnson had arrived in Brookhaven. Indeed, when Johnson's wife called, Orlanda Smith was sitting next to him in the car, according to a statement Smith later gave the police.
Falling into place
Smith worked at a Wal-Mart distribution center in Brookhaven. In his spare time, he made extra money painting cars at his mobile home. A neighbor knows him by the nickname Buckwheat.
Later, Smith told investigators that he was with Johnson for about 30 minutes on June 21, and that he drove the car with Johnson in the passenger seat "to and from a location in Brookhaven," according to the affidavit. Exactly what happened that afternoon is unknown.
What is clear is that about four hours later, at 6:45 p.m. -- about the time the airport control tower called the Kenner Fire Department to report smoke north of the airport -- a Kenner patrol officer found Johnson's car on fire at 1 Hamlet St.
His phone records proved crucial to the investigation. Reviewing them, investigators zeroed in on Smith and, with help from Brookhaven police, searched his mobile home June 23. There they turned up a box for a Hi-Point 9 mm pistol.
Smith told police he had found the box empty and kept it, according to the affidavit. But detectives later learned that he had tried to buy that type of pistol in May in Brookhaven but the purchase was denied. Instead, detectives said, another man bought the pistol for Smith with his money and also gave him a box of ammunition.
In the ensuing weeks, more pieces of the case began falling into place.
The man who bought the gun told police that he had seen Smith on June 22, the day after Johnson was killed. He noticed a burn on Smith's left forearm, something he hadn't noticed when he had seen him two days earlier. Police noticed a bandage on Smith's forearm June 25.
Smith told police he had burned his arm June 24 on the radiator of a vehicle. He told a similar story to the man who bought the gun but added that he suffered the injury while trying to remove marijuana from the car. "He then 'got into it' with someone and had to shoot the person. He then had to get rid of the gun," the affidavit says. The man who bought the gun said he told Smith he didn't want to hear anything else and left Smith's home, according to the affidavit. Police have not found the gun.
On July 18, Kenner police obtained an arrest warrant for Smith. He was arrested three days later at the Wal-Mart center where he had worked for about a year. He lost an extradition fight and was brought to Louisiana on Oct. 9.
Held in jail in lieu of $500,000 bond, Smith has pleaded innocent. Efforts to reach his relatives or an attorney representing him have been unsuccessful.
Even now, detectives aren't certain where Johnson was killed, but they are confident he never intended to come to Kenner. They say they think Smith left him dead in the burning car on Hamlet Street, then got a ride back to Brookhaven with an unknown accomplice.
Smith's arrest brought some relief to Melissa Johnson but little consolation.
"It won't bring my husband back," she said. "I'll be relieved when they get everybody. There had to be more than one person."
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