Louisiana police arrest third suspect in Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzanos hotel death
Louisiana police have arrested a third suspect in connection with Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano’s hotel room murder.Manzano, a 27-year-old Kansas City, Missouri-based Telemundo sports reporter, was in New Orleans on assignment to cover Super Bowl LIX.He was found dead with Xanax in his system in his room at the Comfort Suites hotel in Kenner, Louisiana, on the morning of Feb.5.Officials said his death was caused by the combined toxic effects of Xanax and alcohol, noting that he had been found “face-down in a pillow with no lividity around his nose and mouth.”Since then, Kenner police have arrested so-called “Bourbon Street Hustler” Danette Colbert, 48, and her accused accomplice, Ricky White, in connection with Manzano’s death,On Friday, Kenner police also announced the arrest of Christian Anderson, 33, a New Orleans resident, for his alleged involvement in the plot that led to Manzano’s death.Colbert was nicknamed the “Bourbon Street Hustler” on social media due to her lengthy past targeting men in the French Quarter and stealing their money.She is accused of similar crimes in Las Vegas.Authorities believe she, White and Anderson conspired to drug Manzano and then steal his credit cards before authorities found him dead.Colbert and Manzano “met in the French Quarter, probably in the wee hours of the morning,” Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley previously told Fox News Digital. “They came back to the hotel that was in the city of Kenner about 4:30 a.m.
on Feb.5, at which time we do have surveillance video from the lobby of the hotel showing them going into [Manzano’s] room around that time,” Conley said.
“Then [Colbert] came out, ran to the store, came back about 30 minutes later, and within 10 or 15 minutes, she left the room.And he was never seen again on any video other than when he went into the room.
So, she was the last one to be with him.”Detectives found that one of Manzano’s credit cards was missing while processing hi...