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LSP Lt. Col. and Chief of Staff Doug Cain.

In yet another bombshell revelation by WBRZ (Channel 2 in Baton Rouge)’s Investigative Reporter Chris Nakamoto, we learn that Louisiana State Police (LSP)  Chief of Staff Doug Cain’s phone was sanitized in February of 2020.  Further, according to State Rep. Edmond Jordan (D-Baton Rouge), he understands that the order for the sanitization came from then-LSP Col. Kevin Reeves and then-LSP Legal Counsel Faye Morrison.  Let’s take a look:

2/11/22 WBRZ (Channel 2 in Baton Rouge)’s Investigative Report on Cain phone sanitization.

We previously reported that Morrison informed us on January 5, 2021 that former LTC Mike Noel’s phone was sanitized as he departed to assume his role as Gov. Edwards’ hand-picked man at the Louisiana State Gaming Control Board.

In fact, earlier this week, we previously reported that former LSP Lt. Leon “Bucky” Millet says the Noel timeline is the “smoking gun” establishing complicity of Gov. Edwards in LSP’s Greene cover-up.

We also previously reported in June of 2021 that sources inside LSP told us that Reeves’ phone had been sanitized well before he departed LSP.  According to Nakamoto’s feature, it appears the optimal time for any such sanitizing of Reeves’ phone would match Cain’s (February of 2020).

As our good friend Rev. Freddie Lee Phillips is fond of saying, “It ain’t looking good for the home team!”

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Former LSP Troopers Dakota DeMoss (left) and George Harper (right).

On September 30, 2021, Louisiana State Police Commission (LSPC) member Jared Riecke wasted no time flat making a motion to deny any consolidation of appeal hearings for LSP Troopers George Harper and Dakota DeMoss.

Subscribers who have been with Sound Off Louisiana for a few months may recall that we were the first to expose texts of Harper and DeMoss bragging of a severe beating inflicted upon a black motorist from Mississippi, Antonio Harris.  Our feature was soon linked by numerous national and international publications.  Here are the damning texts from that feature:

The troopers then escorted Harris to one of their marked police vehicles. As they placed Harris in the back seat, Tpr. Harper threatened him by saying, “stupid motherfucker, I hope you act up when we get to the fucking jail. I am going to punish you, dumb bitch. What the fuck is wrong with you, stupid motherfucker. ”

Jacob Brown “How was his attitude at the jail?”

George Harper “Complete silence”

Jacob Brown “Lmao”

Dakota DeMoss “lol he was still digesting that ass whoop in”

Jacob Brown “its gonna take him a couple days … ”

Jacob Brown “he gonna be sore tomorrow for sure”

Jacob Brown “BET he wont run from a full grown bear again”

Dakota DeMoss “Bet he don’t even cross into LA anymore”

George Harper “GRIZZLY Nah he gonna spread the word that’s for damn sure”

Jacob Brown “lmao”

Dakota DeMoss “he’s gonna have nightmares for a long time”

Jacob Brown “lmao…..warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man”

Dakota DeMoss “lolol”

Larry Shappley “haha”

Notwithstanding Riecke’s laser-fast motion to deny consolidating the troopers’ appeals on September 30, 2021 due to “too many moving parts,” the LSPC unceremoniously voted unanimously to consolidate those appeals at its meeting of Thursday, February 10, 2022.  Further, perhaps expecting interest in the hearings to be off the charts, the LSPC is launching an initiative to live stream all meetings going forward beginning with those appeal hearings, which have been set for Monday, March 14, 2022 at 9:30 a.m. with the hearings expected to carry over to the next day, Tuesday, March 15, 2022.  Here’s a brief video of the LSPC’s action of today:

2/10/22 LSPC meeting in which the appeals of DeMoss and Harper are consolidated and set for hearing on March 14-15, 2022.

Live stream notwithstanding, we did hear Commission Member Riecke mention to Executive Director Hannaman that it may be a good idea to procure a larger venue because of the expected interest in these appeals.  We agree with Commissioner Riecke in that regard.  The LSPC may wish to follow the path of the LSP Retirement Board when the infamous “Edmonson Amendment” was hot and heavy.  That meeting was moved to the LASERS conference room.  Considering the interest in these appeals and the upcoming appeal for Carl Cavalier, even that venue may not be large enough to accommodate the crowd of parties involved, other interested parties, and media outlets likely to cover those appeals.

The LSPC meeting was one of the shortest on record, so we’re going to go ahead and just embed a video of the entire meeting since it lasted all of about 16 minutes.  Here it is:

2/10/22 LSPC meeting in its entirety.

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Former Louisiana State Police Chief of Staff Mike Noel, who was in charge of the Greene arrest from May 10, 2019 through his leaving LSP in June of 2020 (13 months) to become Gov. Edwards’ hand-picked Chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board.

Our most recent feature  is being viewed by more folk than any post we’ve made in the recent past, and we are thankful for that very high level of interest.

That fact notwithstanding, both retired LSP Lt. Leon “Bucky” Millet and Sound Off Louisiana founder Robert Burns have gotten feedback from individuals indicating that they just don’t see any “smoking gun” as Millet contends is so evident.

As a result, we modified the contents of the points Millet brought out at the end of the feature which drive home Millet’s point of what he contends is Gov. Edwards’ obvious complicity in the mass LSP cover-up of Greene’s arrest.  We also want to once again stress to our subscribers the fact that it is the LSP Chief of Staff (who was Lt. Col. Mike Noel for a full 13 months after Greene’s attempted arrest leading to his in-custody death) who IS the de facto LSP Colonel!  Bearing that in mind, we want to now reproduce that amended itemization and draw attention to it via this separate feature in the hope that it will make it crystal clear exactly what Millet is contending (to which, for the record, we wholeheartedly concur):

Millet contends that Edwards cannot claim that he was not complicit in the Greene cover-up given that:

1. 1.  He, by his own admission, obtained knowledge of the true circumstances of Greene’s arrest on or about September 10, 2020;
   2. That he also knew (or certainly should have known) that former LTC Noel’s phone was sanitized with such knowledge being obtained by Edwards on or around January 6, 2021;
   3. The above two facts notwithstanding, Edwards had no qualms whatsoever permitting Noel to REMAIN AS HIS GAMING BOARD COMMISSION CHAIRMAN A FULL NINE MONTHS AFTER EDWARDS LEARNED OF THE OBVIOUS COVER-UP FOR WHICH NOEL WOULD HAVE HAD TO PLAY A MAJOR ROLE!!!;
   4. Instead of insisting on Noel’s immediate resignation on September 10, 2020 the SECOND Edwards learned of the false narrative (even though that would have been only three months after Noel’s appointment to the Gaming Commission), Edwards not only permitted Noel to remain as his Gaming Commission Chairman for a FULL 271 days after learning of the false narrative, but he FULLY INTENDED to permit Noel to be confirmed by the Louisiana Senate to continue serving indefinitely NOTWITHSTANDING Edwards’ knowledge of that false narrative (that was nothing short of an obvious cover-up by LSP and its upper brass — to MOST CERTAINLY include Noel — which should be recognized as such by ANYONE with seven functioning brain cells, and we can assure everyone that Edwards has far, far more functioning brain cells than seven and we’ll stipulate to him being pretty darn bright!);
   5. The confirmation was aborted ONLY because the whole Greene matter (particularly the sanitized phone aspect) literally blew up in Edwards’ face within 12 hours of the scheduled hearing to confirm Noel (which was 271 days AFTER Edwards KNEW of the false narrative and obvious cover-up by LSP), most especially as one key Louisiana State Senator obtained unquestionable proof that Noel’s phone was sanitized!

Millet contends that it was only then (at the 11th hour and 59th minute) that Edwards and Noel LITERALLY HAD NO CHOICE but to jointly state that Noel had suddenly opted to simply retire.  Why?  Because questions posed by senators about Noel’s knowledge of and any participation in any Greene cover-up would have killed Noel’s confirmation dead in its tracks.  More importantly, those questions would have readily exposed before the whole world that Edwards had been complicit in the cover-up for a MINIMUM of 271 days (and that’s taking him at his word that he learned nothing of the false LSP narrative until September 10, 2020).

We also can’t help but wonder just what the content of any conversation between Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana State Sen. Greg Tarver (D-Shreveport) at Tarver’s apartment near the State Capitol may have been on the evening of Tuesday, June 8, 2021 right around 9:30 p.m.

We sincerely hope that the above revision makes clear what Millet meant by having the “smoking gun” entailing Gov. Edwards, and we apologize to any and all subscribers and site visitors for the fact that Millet’s claim was obviously not readily ascertainable by some of our subscribers.  Furthermore, we want to express sincere appreciation to the candid feedback that those subscribers were willing to provide either to Millet or us.

Finally, we need to reveal the fact that we inadvertently misspelled Sen. Tarver’s name in our original feature as “Carver.”  We sincerely apologize for that error.

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