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U.S.|Woman Charged in Telemundo Reporter’s Murder Gets 25 Years in Another Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-death-suspect.html
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Danette Colbert, who is awaiting trial in the death of Adan Manzano before the Super Bowl, had her probation revoked in a 2021 case under Louisiana’s repeat offender law.
May 16, 2025, 5:14 p.m. ET
A Louisiana woman charged in the February murder of a Telemundo reporter who was covering the Super Bowl was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for drugging and robbing another man in 2021 after she previously had been spared jail time in that case.
The woman, Danette Colbert, 48, had her probation revoked under Louisiana’s repeat offender law, according to records filed in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.
The judge who vacated Ms. Colbert’s probationary status, Nandi F. Campbell, was the same judge who gave her a suspended sentence last November in the 2021 case, allowing her to avoid prison for what was at least her fourth felony conviction.
That decision was widely criticized after the death of Adan Manzano on Feb. 5. Ms. Colbert was the last person to be seen with him, according to security footage from his hotel in Kenner, La. She had stolen his phone and credit card, which the authorities said fit her pattern of drugging and swindling men who were visiting New Orleans.
Liz Murrill, Louisiana’s attorney general, had argued that Ms. Colbert should have been behind bars and asked Judge Campbell to resentence her under the state’s repeat offender law.
“The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a serial fraudster and took advantage of multiple tourists and innocent people over many years in the French Quarter,” Ms. Murrill said in a statement on Thursday. “I wish we could have saved the life of Adam Manzano.”
