A suspect known as the “Bourbon Street Hustler” was taken into custody regarding the death of a Super Bowl reporter on February 5. The suspect can be seen in a new security camera image obtained from the hotel in Kenner, Louisiana, where the reporter was found dead.
Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old Telemundo reporter based in Kansas City, Missouri, traveled to New Orleans on assignment to cover Super Bowl LIX.
The reporter was discovered deceased on February 5, the same day that security footage from the Comfort Suites hotel in Kenner revealed Danette Colbert entering and leaving the room of the victim, Manzano. Colbert was identified as a 45-year-old individual with a history of criminal activity by Kenner police.
Colbert is currently charged with multiple offenses including being a fugitive on four counts, two counts of traffic violations, one count each of “purse snatching,” aggravated device fraud, illegal fund transfers, bank fraud, computer fraud, and robbery. Additional charges might follow pending the results of Manzano’s autopsy conducted by a medical examiner.
“She’s definitely a career criminal. All her crimes are against … persons, such as access device frauds, simple robberies, thefts, things of that nature,” he told reporters.
Adan Manzano was on assignment at the Super Bowl in New Orleans. (Telemundo Kansas City)
He added that there are three separate criminal cases “in which she’s got access to their personal information and their credit cards in that manner, and there’s several others on her rap sheet.”
Telemundo 39 remembered Manzano as “a true professional and a rising star, who exemplified excellence in his work” in a statement.
“We will deeply miss Adan and his passion for sports, and the contributions he made to the local community,” the statement reads.
Manzano’s wife, Ashleigh Boyd, died in a car crash last year in Kansas.
