The “Bourbon Street Hustler”, Danette Colbert, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for an unrelated case as she faces accusations of second degree murder for having killed a journalist from the Super Bowl.
Colbert, 48, was arrested on February 7 after accompanying Telemundo journalist Adam Manzano, 27, in a hotel room in New Orleans where he was found dead later.
Last year, she was sentenced to a suspended sentence by a parish judge of Orleans after being sentenced for theft and fraud.
The office of the prosecutor general of Louisiana, Liz Murrill, managed to assert before the court that Colbert, who underwent several previous convictions on the crime involving fraud, was a usual offender and deserved a more severe sentence.
“The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a series fraudster and took advantage of several tourists and innocent for many years in the French district,” said Murrill in a statement sent by e-mail.
Colbert’s lawyer, Jerome Matthews, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Stavros Panagoulopoulos, the lawyer representing Colbert in the second degree murder case, refused to comment.
Colbert had been on a probation when the police arrested him for allegedly stolen the mobile phone and the Manzano bank cards, a journalist and television anchor based in Kansas City, Missouri.
The “Bourbon Street Hustler”, Danette Colbert, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for an unrelated case as she faces accusations of second degree murder for having killed a Super Bowl journalist
Colbert had been on probation when the police arrested him for allegedly stolen the mobile phone and the bank cards of Adan Manzano (photo), a 27 -year -old journalist and a television anchor based in Kansas City, Missouri
He was suffocated in lying against earth on a pillow. The alcohol and the Xanax depressant was then found in its system.
She and another person are still faced with accusations of second degree murder in Jefferson’s parish, bordering New Orleans.
Exclusive video surveillance images obtained by Dailymail.com have shown that Colbert and Manzano return to Comfort Inn Hotel in Kenner, Louisiana, before leaving alone.
Last month, a preliminary toxicology examination revealed that the Manzano system contained the depressive benzodiazepine, which included the Alprazolam medication – commonly sold under the Xanax brand.
Manzano was in New Orleans of Kansas City, Missouri to cover the Super Bowl between the Chiefs and the Eagles of Philadelphia.
Surveillance images – exclusively obtained by Daily Mail – have shown that Manzano and Colbert entering Comfort Inn in Kenner on February 5 at 3:46 am.
He appeared coherent, after Colbert in the hall, in his room. We do not yet know where the pair met.
Manzano was found unanswered on February 5 at 3 p.m. after colleagues called for a wellness check.
Telemundo journalist Adan Manzano is seen behind the “Bourbon Street Hustler”, Danette Colbert, in What is the last photo of him living, taken on February 5
The images – exclusively obtained by Daily Mail – shows that Manzano and Colbert enter the Comfort suites in Kenner, Louisiana, February 5 at 3:46
The journalist – A recent repertoire whose wife died in April 2024 – had failed to appear at their afternoon meeting.
Colbert, on the other hand, has left the room twice. It appeared for the first time at 4:45 a.m., leaving the room alone and returning 20 minutes later.
She then made two trips at the reception, where it appeared that she asked for an additional key for the room.
She was then seen to leave the room at 5:21 a.m. last time.
Colbert was arrested a few days later after being caught with Manzano credit cards in New Orleans stores.
The investigators then identified White as his alleged accomplice, before being apprehended at the Quinta Inn & Suites in Hollywood, Florida, by the police.
White, who is now detained in a Fort Lauderdale prison, has been arrested for several accusations under Louisiana’s law; Including a simple flight and bank fraud.
Manzano did not have a prescription for Xanax or other depressants depending on his medical records and the drug is often used to facilitate theft by inducing amnesia, detectives said.
Rickey White (Photo) was appointed by police as an alleged accomplice of Colbert
Manzano’s wife Ashleigh died in 2024 in a car accident. They are represented with their daughter
Police said they also recovered Xanax from Colbert’s residence.
Drug overdoses can lead to “extreme drowsiness” and a “possible death”, according to the US Drug Enfacing Administration.
The authorities said Colbert later used Manzano credit card to make a purchase in a New Orleans service station and several stores in the region.
Last year, a jury from Louisiana recognized Colbert guilty of theft and fraud in an unrelated case.
In 2022, Colbert was arrested twice in Las Vegas for the crime of the big flight and administering a drug to help a crime, according to the judicial archives.
In both cases, she was accused of driving up the men in their hotel rooms and having stolen them, but the accusations were rejected because the victims did not want to testify in court, said Colbert’s lawyer Daniel Lippmann.
Manzano graduated from the Kansas State University and joined the beat of the Chiefs at the start of the 2024 season as a touch journalist.
He covered his third consecutive Super Bowl, having also been in Arizona and Las Vegas before this month’s visit to New Orleans.
Manzano published photos from the opening evening of the Super Bowl at Superdome, where he was in service interviewing the players.
He was also a regular football journalist, covering Sporting Kansas City, and Big 12 basketball and the Kansas Jayhawks.
His wife, Ashleigh Boyd, died tragically in a car accident last year. The couple’s girl is now without her two parents.
