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WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. — Arguments began Monday in the trial of a former teacher accused of molesting two 11-year-old female students at a Christian school in Wayne County in the mid-1990s. 53-year-old Warren Riley is charged with multiple counts of indecent liberties with a child. On the first day of arguments, one of his alleged victims took the stand to lay out the abuse she claims she suffered. Riley was arrested in August 2020 and charged with abuse stemming from his time teaching at Faith Christian Academy in Goldsboro. The trial began with opening statements. Prosecutors told the jury that...

July 31, 2009 …This week, a source within the New Orleans Police Department confided to me that Police Chief Warren Riley will resign his post within the next few weeks and begin a campaign for Mayor of the city. Qualifying for candidates is in early December and the election is in early February 2010, only six months away. Riley has served as Police Chief for the past four years. He replaced Eddie Compass who resigned in the midst of the post-Katrina chaos. While Riley looks more professional and is certainly a better communicator than Eddie Compass, he is not a...

Defense attorney John Fuller last summer needed to get back more than $9,000 seized from his client during a drug arrest. But when Fuller, armed with a court order, went to both the police Central Evidence and Property division and the clerk of court's office at Criminal District Court, he was told neither had the money, which he said belongs to his client's mother.The only other agency that possibly could have the money was the Orleans Parish district attorney's office.A DA investigator checked out all of the evidence in the case from the police evidence room the same day it...