Woman linked to Super Bowl reporter's death shouldn't have been free when he died, Louisiana AG says
Other men have accused the Louisiana woman linked to the death of a Super Bowl reporter of drugging and robbing them — and she shouldn’t have been on probation when the reporter was found dead last month, the state’s top prosecutor said.
Other men have accused the Louisiana woman linked to the death of a Super Bowl reporter of drugging and robbing them — and she shouldn’t have been on probation when the reporter was found dead last month, the state’s top prosecutor said.
Danette Colbert, 48, was convicted in October of computer fraud, theft and illegal transmission of monetary funds in connection with a November 2021 scheme that the victim said targeted his life savings.
David Butler said in court records and an interview with NBC News that Colbert left him for dead after she drugged and robbed him of more than $80,000 in cryptocurrency in New Orleans’ French Quarter. He didn’t get drug tested, and no charges linked to that drugging allegation were filed.
Last fall, Colbert was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay Butler $50,000 in restitution, court records in the case show.
The Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office is working to revoke that sentence and impose a harsher one, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement Monday. She said Colbert “was not eligible for probation” when she was sentenced.
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