Inside the Rap Park of ‘Career Crime’ arrested after Super Bowl -Reporter Avan Manzano

A Louisiana woman who was allegedly caught using credit cards belonging to Telemundo -journalist Adanzano, after he was found dead, has a long -standing rapark with arrests -and police claim she has a signature mode operandi.

Danette Colbert, 48, resident of Slidell, was arrested after trying to use Manzano’s cards in the New Orleans stores. Manzano, a journalist for Telemundo KC in town to cover the Super Bowl, was found dead at a hotel in Kenner on February 5th.

The Kenner police say security recordings at the hotel show that Colbert accompanies the 27-year-old reporter to his hotel room on the morning of February 5, before leaving later that day by himself.

Colbert has not been indicted in connection with Manzano’s death at alleged trawl for victims in the famous French neighborhood, Kenner police chief Keith Conley said at a press conference on Friday.

Colbert was first arrested in New Orleans in 2012 and was indicted for robbery, according to Orleans Parish Court Records. She pleaded guilty and received two years of probation and a fine of $ 2,700.

Colbert was arrested again in 2014 after a tourist said he had met a woman and returned to her hotel room with her near Lafayette Square. Then he claimed he woke up missing $ 100 cash, his credit card and a $ 4,000 Rolex Watch, police said, said per. New Orleans Times-Picayune.

The woman was then caught on monitoring recordings that made cash extracts with the man’s card three separately times in a store’s ATM; When she returned and the manager called the police, she reported the woman, identified as Colbert, returned with two other women and assaulted the manager, leaving her with a black eye.

Colbert would eventually plead guilty to scary witness, 2nd degree battery, bank fraud, theft below $ 5000 and burglary per day. Louisiana court registers and received five years of probation.

In 2016, she was accused of caught a purse and burglar a home in Orleans Parish, per. Court Registers. She again pleaded guilty to the charges and received five years of probation.

Colbert was arrested again in January 2022, this time in Las Vegas. She was indicted for magnificent Larceny and administered a substance in operation for a crime per Nevada Court Registers.

Quoting an arrest report, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported A man allegedly invited her and another woman up to her hotel room and then woke up and lacked almost $ 100,000 in cash, casinochips, jewelry and luxury luggage.

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Colbert denied fooling the man or stealing his stuff, reports the outlets.

On July, while Las Vegas Police, while he was out of jail on bond, claimed a similar step, again on Wynn, the Review-Journal Reports; She was again indicted for magnificent Larceny and the administration of a substance in operation for a crime per Nevada Court Registers.

According to the outlets, with reference to the police, a male patron said he invited Colbert and another woman up to his room in Wynn. Later he said he woke up and was missing a $ 60,000 watch, $ 1,500 in Casinochips and his credit card, which he said had been used to make purchases.

The following month – again while he was out on Bond – Colbert was arrested for allegedly driving his car nearly 100 km / hi a las vegas school zone, KSNV reports. She was hit by charges of aggressive driving, driving without insurance or a valid license and speed, per. Court Registers.

Theft cases against her in Vegas were rejected per. Court Registration, while the Running Reading remains active: Registrations show that she did not appear in court in January 2023, which led to a judge issuing a bench order for her arrest.

Recently, she seemed to return to New Orleans. In May 2023, she was hit by computer fraud, illegal transmission of money and theft of up to $ 5,000 in Orleans Parish; She got five years of probation.

Colbert’s latest charges included a DUI and driving without a license, insurance or seat belt in May 2024 in Orleans Parish. She pleaded guilty and got 6 months probation,