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Toronto Sun
30-05-2025
- Toronto Sun
3rd suspect arrested in connection with death of Super Bowl reporter in New Orleans
Published May 30, 2025 • 2 minute read This photo provided by Telemundo Kansas City shows television reporter Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Kansas City, Missouri, who was found dead in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner during Super Bowl week. AP BATON ROUGE, La. — A third person has been charged in connection to the death of a television reporter who had traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl earlier this year. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Christian Anderson, 33, of New Orleans, was arrested for his alleged role in a recurring scheme that police say involved targeting victims, drugging them and robbing them. Among those alleged victims was Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and anchor for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri. Manzano was found dead Feb. 5 in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. Manzano's death came a year after his wife died in a car accident. The couple leaves behind a toddler daughter. An autopsy revealed that Manzano died lying face down on a pillow, unable to breathe after ingesting a combination of alcohol and the depressant Xanax. Security video from Manzano's hotel showed the reporter and a woman, who police later identified as Danette Colbert, entering his room together on the morning of his death. About an hour later, Colbert could be seen walking out of the room alone. Authorities say the woman later used Manzano's credit card at a New Orleans gas station and several stores in the area. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Colbert, whose arrest record include allegations of drugging men and theft, was charged with second-degree murder and with stealing Manzano's credit cards and cellphone. In addition, Ricky White, 34, has been charged with murder. Kenner police said that the vehicle Colbert used on the day of Manzano's death had been rented by Anderson. After reviewing more evidence, including text messages, police say they believe that Anderson 'provided logistical support, engaged in post-crime communication, and assisted in attempts to financially benefit from the victim's stolen assets.' Anderson has been charged with principal to simple robbery, purse snatching, access device fraud, illegal transmission of monetary funds, bank fraud and computer fraud. He is currently being held in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. Jail records did not immediately list an attorney who could speak on Anderson's behalf. Crime World Olympics Sunshine Girls Toronto Raptors
Toronto Sun
16-05-2025
- Toronto Sun
Woman charged in Super Bowl reporter's death sentenced to 25 years in unrelated case
Published May 16, 2025 • 1 minute read FILE - This photo provided by Telemundo Kansas City shows television reporter Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Kansas City, Missouri, who was found dead in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner during Super Bowl week. (Telemundo Kansas City via AP, File) AP A woman facing a second-degree murder charge for the death of a Super Bowl television reporter has been sentenced to 25 years in an unrelated case on Thursday. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Danette Colbert, 48, had previously been given a suspended sentence by an Orleans Parish judge last year after being convicted of theft and fraud charges. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office successfully argued in court that Colbert, who has multiple prior felony convictions involving fraud, was a habitual offender and deserved a harsher sentence. Colbert had been on probation when police arrested her for allegedly stealing the cellphone and bank cards of a reporter found dead in his hotel room on Feb. 5. He was in town to cover Super Bowl LIX weekend in New Orleans. Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and television anchor based in Kansas City, Missouri, suffocated while lying face down on a pillow. Alcohol and the depressant Xanax were later found in his system. Colbert was captured on security footage leaving Manzano's hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, police said. Colbert and another person still face second-degree murder charges in Jefferson Parish, bordering New Orleans. 'The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a serial fraudster and took advantage of multiple tourists and innocent people over many years in the French Quarter,' Murrill said in an emailed statement. Colbert's attorney Jerome Matthews did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Stavros Panagoulopoulos, the lawyer representing Colbert in the second-degree murder case, declined to comment. Celebrity Ontario Toronto Maple Leafs Celebrity Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Sun
06-05-2025
- Toronto Sun
Police charge 2nd suspect with murder in the death of Super Bowl reporter in New Orleans
Published May 06, 2025 • 2 minute read FILE - This photo provided by Telemundo Kansas City shows television reporter Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old anchor and reporter for Telemundo in Kansas City, Missouri, who was found dead in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner during Super Bowl week. (Telemundo Kansas City via AP, File) AP Louisiana authorities on Monday charged a second suspect with murder in the death of a television reporter who had traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and anchor for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri, was found dead Feb. 5 in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner. A woman seen on security video leaving Manzano's room was later charged with second-degree murder and with stealing his credit cards and cellphone. Kenner police announced Monday that an accomplice, 34-year-old Rickey White, has also been charged with second-degree murder. White was arrested in Florida in March on robbery and fraud charges related to Manzano's death, then extradited to Louisiana. Kenner police said in a news release that the murder charge against White resulted from 'continued investigative efforts,' but officials gave no further details. Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said at a news conference March 18 that investigators had linked White to Danette Colbert, the first suspect charged in the case, based on 'correspondence and information where they were going back and forth. So we think they were working hand-in-hand in concert with each other.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. An attorney for White, Kevin Boshea, said he hadn't been informed of the murder charge before an Associated Press reporter called him Monday. 'I don't think he's guilty of the other crimes,' Boshea said, 'so how can he be guilty of murder?' Boshea said he pressed police during a preliminary hearing on the robbery and fraud charges last month to show evidence that White was in the New Orleans area when Manzano died, but they presented none. An attorney for Colbert had said that police were making 'assumptions and guesses' to link her to Manzano's death. Under Louisiana law, a defendant can be charged with second-degree murder for distributing drugs that cause a death or for committing certain crimes, including robbery, that result in someone dying. An autopsy found Manzano died lying facedown on a pillow and unable to breathe after ingesting a combination of alcohol and the depressant Xanax, Jefferson Parish Coroner Gerry Cvitanovich told reporters in March. Police said security video from Manzano's hotel showed him and Colbert entering his room together the day of his death. Footage showed Colbert leaving without him about an hour later. Authorities have said Colbert later used Manzano's credit card to make a purchase at a New Orleans gas station and at several stores in the area. Police have also said Manzano's medical records showed no prescriptions for Xanax or other depressants, and that they recovered the drug from Colbert's home.
New York Times
21-03-2025
- New York Times
Long Before She Was Charged With Murder, a Group of Men Had Raised an Alarm
The woman in the hotel security camera video showing the final hours of a sports reporter's life needed no introduction. For a group of men who said they had in recent years been drugged, robbed of tens of thousands of dollars, and had their identities stolen on nights out in New Orleans, the name of Danette Colbert, who was charged with murdering Adan Manzano, had tormented them for years. Now, with the death of Mr. Manzano, a reporter for Telemundo Kansas City who had been in town covering the Super Bowl, it was front-page news. The text chain the men had started as a kind of virtual support group erupted with relief, as well as frustration that it had come to this. 'She finally went too far,' David Butler, 52, wrote on Feb. 7, linking to an article about Mr. Manzano's death. One of the men replied: 'So she didn't get any time after the trial you testified in?' One of the men had come to town on a guys' trip. Another was visiting family. A renovation project brought another to New Orleans, where the men say they became Ms. Colbert's victims. Over the years, they said, they had reported her to law enforcement and spent hundreds of hours trying to repair damage to their finances. Still, Ms. Colbert, 48, had been on probation at the time of Mr. Manzano's death — despite having twice been charged in connection with similar scams on the Las Vegas Strip. (Both of those cases were dismissed.) Days before Mr. Manzano was supposed to cover the Super Bowl for Telemundo Kansas City, his co-workers called his hotel for a wellness check after he missed an appointment. His body was found in his room on Feb. 5, the police said, with his phone and a credit card missing. They had been stolen by Ms. Colbert, according to the authorities, who said that she had been involved in similar schemes in New Orleans. This week, preliminary autopsy findings showed that the 27-year-old Mr. Manzano had died from the toxic effects of Xanax and alcohol, in addition to positional asphyxia. He was found facedown against a pillow. Investigators said on Tuesday that they had also found Xanax at Ms. Colbert's home the day after Mr. Manzano's death, and that she had commonly used it to drug victims. They charged her with second-degree murder, which in Louisiana carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Mr. Butler said his ordeal began more than three years ago — in the early morning hours of Nov. 6, 2021, when he had gone out to the French Quarter to take a break from renovating a house not far from the nightlife district. Ms. Colbert and another woman approached him outside a bar on Bourbon Street and asked whether he wanted to join them, he recalled in a victim impact statement and in interviews. He took them up on the offer. But after leaving his first drink unattended to buy a second round and coming back to finish it, he said, something felt off. 'Within minutes, I started feeling very strange, woozy, a feeling like the world around me was going dark,' Mr. Butler said. His memory of what happened next is fuzzy: He recalled Ms. Colbert pushing him into a waiting taxi with her, he said, and about 12 hours later, a property manager at the home he was renovating shaking him awake as he lay on a mattress. 'He said he thought I was dead,' Mr. Butler said. His wallet and phone were missing, but he still had his laptop, which had been buried under a pile of clothes. When he opened it and saw a torrent of fraud alerts, panic overcame him. One alert: $85,000 in Bitcoin and Ethereum funds had been transferred from his Coinbase cryptocurrency wallet to an account, QUEENTX100. He said that a Google search of that name led him to a Facebook page for Ms. Colbert, whose photos he recognized. Other alerts showed an attempt to withdraw an additional $50,000 from his Chase bank account, and to make purchases totaling thousands of dollars at stores, including Walmart and Best Buy, using his credit cards, he said. He went to the authorities the next day. His case bounced between detectives before Ms. Colbert was arrested in 2023. Nearly three years after that night — after Mr. Butler gathered mountains of paperwork for investigators and credit card companies — a jury in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court convicted Ms. Colbert last October of several felonies. During the trial, a lawyer for Ms. Colbert argued that Mr. Butler had paid her the money for sex, which he denied. Judge Nandi F. Campbell ordered Ms. Colbert to pay $50,000 in restitution to Mr. Butler, but Ms. Colbert received a 10-year suspended sentence and probation instead of jail time, court records show. 'I told the judge, I told the D.A., that she was going to kill somebody,' said Mr. Butler, who requested that other identifying information about him not be published, including where he lives and his occupation. Keith D. Lampkin, a spokesman for the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, said that the prosecutor's office filed a motion to revoke the sentence of probation Ms. Colbert received after learning of her recent arrest in Mr. Manzano's death. Representatives for Judge Campbell did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did the lawyer who represented Ms. Colbert in the earlier case or her current lawyer. Daniel Lippmann, who represented Ms. Colbert in the two Las Vegas cases from 2022, said that the alleged victims in those cases had failed to show up in court for preliminary hearings. In the months that followed his ordeal, Mr. Butler began to search online for clues about what had happened to him, and discovered other men sharing similar experiences on Reddit. He tracked them down and started a group text chain. They said they had something — rather, someone — in common: Ms. Colbert. There was Jason Egle, 50, a registered nurse who grew up near New Orleans, who had taken his nephew to a bar in the French Quarter to hear jazz in October 2021, he said in an interview. He had some beers and shots, nothing he couldn't handle, he said, but felt heavily impaired as he left the bar. 'I couldn't even walk,' Mr. Egle said. 'I could barely see.' Mr. Egle said that he had called an Uber, and a black Mustang pulled up almost immediately. 'She was the driver,' he said of Ms. Colbert. But there had been some confusion about whether he and his nephew had gotten into the right car, so, he said, Ms. Colbert asked to see his Uber app. That is when Mr. Egle said he let his guard down and gave Ms. Colbert the code to unlock his phone, the same one for the password keychain for various apps, including those for his financial accounts. Not long after that, he said, Ms. Colbert told him that he had gotten into the wrong car and handed him back a phone — but it was not his. He did not immediately notice the switch because the battery was dead, he said. Mr. Egle said Ms. Colbert had gotten into his cryptocurrency account and withdrawn about $15,000. Mr. Egle provided The New York Times a copy of an online police report that he said that he filed with the New Orleans Police Department in October 2021 and a brief email exchange with an F.B.I. special agent in New Orleans in April 2022. Neither law enforcement agency, he said, followed up with him. The New Orleans Police Department did not respond to requests for comment. A spokeswoman for the F.B.I.'s field office in New Orleans said that it was the bureau's policy to neither confirm nor deny that it was conducting an investigation. Ms. Colbert never had a driver account on Uber, said Sarah Casasnovas, a spokeswoman for the ride-share app. Around the time of Mr. Egle's alleged encounter with Ms. Colbert, Eric Maul, 32, who works in technology sales and lives in Los Angeles, said he had had a lot to drink in the French Quarter and called an Uber. A black Mustang pulled up, with Ms. Colbert driving, he said. About 10 minutes later, he said, she told him that her Uber app was not working and asked for his phone, which he unlocked and gave to her. She gave him a dead phone back, which he said led to an argument and prompted him to end the ride. 'Everything was already gone by the time I woke up,' said Mr. Maul, who learned that about $10,000 was missing from his accounts and that several loan applications had been filled out in his name. He kept calling his phone, and about 24 hours later, someone picked up: It was Mr. Egle. 'Did she just rob you blind?' he asked Mr. Maul. In conversations with the men and in their group chat, where they had commiserated and compared notes for many months, there was hope that others would not be victimized. 'Somebody shouldn't have to die,' Mr. Egle said.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Yahoo
Murder charges filed against suspect in death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano during Super Bowl week
A woman has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano, police in Kenner, Louisiana, announced Tuesday. Danette Colbert was the last person seen with Manzano before he was found dead in his Kenner hotel room Feb. 5, the Wednesday before Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. Surveillance video observed Colbert leaving Manzano's hotel room and she was found with his cellphone and credit cards in her possession when arrested two days later. Manzano, 27, a reporter and anchor for Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports, was in New Orleans to cover the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LIX. Colbert was initially charged with property crimes, including theft and fraud-related offenses after being found using Manzano's credit card at multiple stores. "We recognize it's going to be a circumstantial case," Kenner police chief Keith Conley told reporters, via ABC News. "We're not going to give up. We are still investigating this case around the clock." A reporter covering the upcoming SuperBowl has died in New Orleans. Adan Manzano was described as a "rising star" journalist. He covered university and professional sports teams in Kansas City since 2021, conducting interviews in both English and Spanish. — Inside Edition (@InsideEdition) February 7, 2025 Results from Manzano's autopsy were revealed at a Tuesday news conference. The reporter died from the combined effects of anti-anxiety medication Xanax and alcohol, in addition to "positional asphyxia," according to Jefferson Parish coroner Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich. Manzano's alcohol level was almost three times the legal limit, the coroner added. However, Manzano's exact cause of death is still to be determined due to the "uncertain circumstances" of the case, which will either be ruled a homicide or accidental overdose, depending on the findings. Yet authorities can still pursue a murder case. "In most cases of overdose deaths, the manner of death is accidental, and that's whether or not there's positional asphyxia," Cvitanovich said, via ABC News. "However, given the uncertain circumstances of this case and the additional collection of circumstances of this case, we felt that the most appropriate manner of death is undetermined." An alleged accomplice was also arrested last Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Rickey White will be charged with simple robbery, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds based on correspondence with Colbert, reports New Orleans WVUE-TV.
