Suspects such as Ivory Harris were released despite charges in violent offenses

By KIM COBB
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

NEW ORLEANS - When Hurricane Katrina hit, Ivory "B-Stupid" :rolleyes: Harris was living at 2800 Perdido, the parish jail. It was his home away from home.

The 20-year-old man had racked up a staggering list of arrests in New Orleans, including two on murder charges. But he was never convicted of any serious crime.

When New Orleans flooded — five days after a local crime commission criticized police and prosecutors for doing a poor job of putting violent criminals behind bars — Harris was one of thousands of inmates farmed out to jails throughout Louisiana.

And when he was released in Shreveport on Nov. 3, Harris became Houston's problem and a key figure in Houston's new crime controversy.

Harris is among 11 Katrina evacuees suspected of transferring their New Orleans turf battles to Houston and carrying out homicides, robberies and kidnappings that began after his release from Shreveport. Houston police classify the suspects as extremely violent.

Harris is still at large, and the police and public are pondering how much crime former residents of New Orleans brought to their host city.

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An Orleans Parish grand jury indicted Harris as an adult on first-degree murder charges, and he sat in jail for the next two years during a series of pretrial motions and while attorneys debated his mental competency.

Not retarded, just ignorant as hell.

I read an article at MSNBC this morning where the spokesman for the Houston Sheriff's dept. said that although crime in Houston has gone up, the crime is proportionally the same for New Orleans residents as it was for Houston residents. It's just that there are more people in the city now.

That is not the case.

The people who left NO were VICTIMS. They were victims of the white, racist xenophobic, hitlerite Bushies.

They never committed a crime in NO until they were forced to by the evil Republicans who blew up the levees so that they could get rid of that great chocolate city.

That's not very amusing.
Had you met families who had to leave grandparents behind to rot in the streets you might not feel so entitled to make stupid remarks like that.

just wait till they get thrown out of their hotels tomorrow.

That's not very amusing.
Had you met families who had to leave grandparents behind to rot in the streets you might not feel so entitled to make stupid remarks like that.

I'm sure there were good people who couldn't leav and need help . But there is also alot of bad ones who were bad long before Bushe and Channey went under water to blow up levees ,especially one with a bad heart and the other's eyes so bad he milked a male horse ,thinking it a cow ,' according to the lovely classy lady wifey poo . I bet it was scairy for them both being in that infected water . I wouldn't want to stick my toe in it .

Milked a male horse?
Can you send me some of the drugs you're taking please. I'm jealous.