Telemundo reporter Adam Mananzo was pictured strolling to a lodge room with the so-called “Bourbon Road Hustler” hours earlier than his dying — because it emerged she is being investigated over one other latest comparable fatality.
Manzano, 27, was seen smiling whereas carrying a plastic procuring bag as he walked behind Danette Colbert, 48, into the identical room within the New Orleans lodge he would quickly be discovered useless in whereas staying there to cowl the Tremendous Bowl.
Colbert was later discovered together with his cellphone and bank card, and investigators have stated they’re investigating whether or not she drugged and robbed the reporter.
She can be being investigated over the mysterious dying of a Maryland man — John Jenkins, 55 — who was discovered useless from cocaine and ethanol toxicity in a French Quarter lodge on Dec. 15, NOLA.com reported.
“We suspect she could also be associated to the case,” Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick stated of the sooner case, which was initially categorised as an unintended dying.
Jenkins was additionally on the town for a soccer recreation — a Saints and Washington Commanders match-up — sparking concern from his associates who requested a wellness test when he was a no-show.
He was discovered unresponsive in his lodge room, McCormick stated.
Kenner detectives are working with Louisiana Legal professional Basic Liz Murrill’s workplace and State Police Troop Nola to analyze Jenkins’ dying and doable ties to Colbert.
A number of different alleged victims of Colbert have come ahead following Manzano’s dying, together with David Butler, 52, who met Colbert within the French Quarter.
Throughout their encounter, Butler stated, Colbert supplied him a cocktail that made him really feel disoriented and in want of assist getting dwelling.
“She ushered me into some sort of black Suburban that was actually proper there,” he advised NBC Information. “And that’s the very last thing I keep in mind that evening.”
A property supervisor discovered Butler handed out on the ground and shook him awake, with the sufferer discovering his cellphone and pockets gone and his bank cards used to make thousand-dollar fees at Finest Purchase and Walmart.
Greater than $80,000 that Butler stashed away in a cryptocurrency account for retirement was additionally gone, he stated.
Nevada courtroom data present that Colbert was charged in 2022 with grand larceny and administering a drug to assist within the fee of a felony in two separate circumstances. Each circumstances had been dismissed after the victims refused to testify in courtroom.
Colbert was convicted final October of pc fraud, theft, and unlawful transmission of financial funds, with Orleans Legal District Decide Nandi Campbell forgoing jail time and as an alternative ordering her to pay restitution and stay on probation for 5 years, in accordance with courtroom data.
Butler slammed the sentence and claimed Manzano wouldn’t have misplaced his life if Campbell had levied a harsher sentence.
“Had the courtroom acted decisively by incarcerating Ms. Colbert or imposing stricter circumstances for her launch, it’s doable Mr. Manzano would nonetheless be alive immediately,” Butler advised NBC.
