CHILLING surveillance pictures present Telemundo journalist Adan Manzano being lured right into a lodge room by a lady dubbed the Bourbon Avenue Hustler – hours earlier than he was discovered useless.

Journalist Manzano, 27, was final seen alive within the early hours of February 5 in New Orleans the place he was on task for the Tremendous Bowl.

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Cops in Kenner stated he returned to his room on the Consolation Suites lodge with Danette Colbert, 48, earlier than she left an hour later.

Police have since launched that footage and it confirmed the reporter standing behind Colbert who was carrying a denim outfit.

Manzano was carrying a shirt, denims and grey Nike sneakers and was carrying a white plastic bag.

Police stated the duo arrived at round 4:35am earlier than Colbert left.

Colbert then returned to the room earlier than leaving for a second time at 6am native time.

She didn’t return to the lodge room.

The reporter’s reason behind loss of life stays unknown, however investigators are probing to see if he was drugged.

Colbert allegedly used Manzano’s bank card in shops throughout New Orleans earlier than she was arrested on February 6.

On the time of her arrest, she was on probation in relation to a 2021 case that happened in New Orleans.

Colbert pleaded responsible to stealing round $134,000 from David Butler, as reported by The New Orleans Advocate.

Butler believes he was drugged whereas having fun with an evening out within the metropolis’s well-known French Quarter.

Court docket docs, obtained by the outlet, revealed Butler began to really feel “woozy” at a bar.

He left and a lady, later recognized as Colbert, jumped in a cab with him.

Butler stated he awakened at his rental house and found his watch, ring, telephone and pockets lacking.

Cops additionally revealed $80,000 in cryptocurrency had been moved to an iCloud account.

Investigators have described her as a “profession prison.”

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Locals have given Colbert the nickname the “Bourbon Avenue Hustler.”

In 2022, Colbert was charged with drugging a person and stealing $50,000 in money from him in Las Vegas, per the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal.

Manzano’s bank card and cellular phone have been discovered at her house in Slidell – positioned round 33 miles north of New Orleans.

The cardboard was the identical one Manzano used to e book himself into the lodge, based on Keith Conley, the Kenner Police Division chief.

Cops have confirmed she is going through a slew of costs, together with fraud and purse snatching, however she has not been charged in reference to Manzano’s loss of life.

His physique was discovered by a lodge supervisor after not exhibiting as much as work.

Investigators stated there have been no indicators of trauma.

Manzano’s loss of life got here simply months after his spouse Ashleigh LeAnn Boyd, 24, was killed in a automotive crash.

Boyd was killed in an accident in Topeka, Kansas, in April final yr.  The pair shared a younger daughter.

He was making ready to cowl his third Tremendous Bowl for the Telemundo outlet KGKC.

Manzano joined the outlet as a sports activities anchor in 2021.

In one among his final social media posts, he shared a photograph of his spouse and their daughter.

Tributes poured in for Manzano as KDKC bosses described him as a “rising star.”

“We are going to deeply miss his ardour for sports activities and the contributions he made to the area people,” execs stated.

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