A Louisiana jury convicted a woman of negligent homicide on Thursday in the death of a Telemundo TV reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl. Danette Colbert, 49, was also convicted of racketeering, as was her accomplice, 35-year-old Rickey White, according to a rep for the Jefferson Parish district attorney's office. Racketeering carries up to a 50-year sentence in Louisiana; Colbert's negligent homicide conviction carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. The two had spent years carrying out a criminal enterprise that drew in victims in the city's historic French Quarter with the promise of sex, then used drugs to knock them out and drain their bank accounts using stolen cards and phones, according to prosecutors.
In court documents, prosecutors described Colbert as acting under the guise of a "prostitute or 'party girl'" while White served as her "pimp," who provided security and helped find and rob victims. Colbert was the last person seen leaving the room of Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and anchor for Telemundo based in Kansas City, Missouri, who was found dead in his hotel room Feb. 5 in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner days before the Super Bowl last year. An autopsy revealed that Manzano died lying face down on a pillow, unable to breathe after ingesting a combination of alcohol and the depressant Xanax. Manzano's death came a year after his wife died in a car accident. The couple left behind a toddler daughter.
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