A Louisiana woman with a history of stealing “drug men” and credit cards was arrested after the death of a television reporter in New Orleans at the Super Bowl, police said Friday.
Hotel security video showed Dannet Colbert, who lives in nearby Slidell, entered the room at 4:35am on Wednesday, along with Adan Manzano, 27, of Kansas City Telemundo.
According to Conley, detectives discovered that the credit card that Manzano was using because he was checking in the comfort suite was not in his body or in his hotel room.
Colbert used Manzano credit cards “at several stores in the New Orleans area,” Kenner police said in a statement.
Colbert is “prosecuted with property crimes, including fraud and theft-related offences,” but “this investigation remains ongoing.”
Kenner police have not said how Manzano died.
“I asked if this was a murder, I don’t know where it’s going. We don’t speculate that the evidence leads us to the end result,” Conley said.
“As soon as the coroner finishes his discovery, they classify it as either a murder or death that evidence leads to him, they can upgrade these charges.”
The suspect “has arrest records including allegations of drug men, currency theft, fraudulent use of credit and debit cards, and other financial crimes,” Kenner police said. She calls her “investigator” for her involvement in these crimes.
In Nevada in 2022, police said Colbert “introduced substances, foreign substances to the victims,” Conley said.
Colbert was booked for allegedly simple robbery, fraudulent access devices, illegal communication of financial funds, bank fraud and computer fraud, the police chief said.
It was not immediately clear whether Colbert had hired or assigned an attorney to speak on her behalf.
Manzano’s death came months after his wife, Ashley Boyd, died in a car accident in Topeka, officials said. Boyd, 24, was a second-grade teacher at Topeka Public Schools.
The couple has a young girl who survived a car accident.
Austin Mullen contributed.
