And I want to tell you *** little bit about this case. January 26th, 2004 members of Hammond Police Department were dispatched to an address on Joe Iversen drive upon arrival. They came into contact with an unresponsive male. Uh As I of our officers did an initial investigation, they did believe that it was some kind of way related to *** narcotics overdose immediately. Our officers con contacted our four team. Our fourth team is the fentaNYL overdose response team. Tell you *** little bit about this team. This team started back in early January in early January myself as well as some of my counterparts with the DEA the drug enforcement administration um had *** meeting at which time I requested that they would relocate or at least locate an office on the North Shore to help us with the fentaNYL problem that is going on in our country. As we met with these guys, they came up with this 14. Um This is something that was tried in, in other states or had happened in other locations, but it's the first time that it's happening in Louisiana and it's the first time. Definitely in our region. This fort team responds to overdoses within the city of Hammond and TPO parish. In any case, in any situation, they respond to the overdose to make *** determination on whether or not there was *** potential of fentaNYL involvement or *** fentaNYL poisoning. In this case, when the four teams showed up and there was members of the Hammond Police Department, Narcotics Division as well as the drug enforcement administration. They did *** quick test that determined that the overdose was related to fentaNYL, the victim. Mr Nicholas Platt 27 years of age, as I said, was deceased on scene, but the quick test came back as positive for fentaNYL. This began the four teams investigation. Now this investigation has taken *** long time. It's taken *** long time because there's *** lot of information that has to go into it. It's not like *** normal crime scene. We're going after the drug dealers, we're going after the people that are selling the fentaNYL that are poisoning members of our community. As they go through this investigation around April, they were able to identify *** potential suspect. The suspect suspect was Tristan mcmillian who's 26 years of age through the course of the investigation. They were able to pinpoint that mcmillan had sold the narcotics that we believe came to the demise of Mr Platt. Through the course of the investigation, we were able to get enough probable cause to get *** warrant for his arrest for second degree murder and his role in providing Mr Platt with *** lethal dose of fentaNYL that ultimately caused his death. Mr mcmillan has been charged with second degree murder, distribution of Schedule one, marijuana and distribution of Schedule two fentaNYL. I will tell you all that this type of case has never been prosecuted. Um In the 21st judicial district, we have been working closely with the District attorney's office. District Attorney Scott Peru is fully on board and he is assisting us with this investigation step by step to make sure that we do get *** good prosecution on this case. Uh as in any case, um when there's *** murder charge, it will go in front of grand jury. Um it will then be presented uh to the courts after the grand jury as long as we get an indictment, which we feel very confident through the hard work and dedication of this four team, this fentaNYL overdose response team that they've been able to get enough information. They've been able to prove that Mr mcmillan is the one who served the lethal lethal dose to Mr Platt. I can't say enough about the fentaNYL epidemic that we have going on in our country. We used to call them overdoses. They're now called poisonings. There are people out here every single day who are doing narcotics that are getting lethal doses of fentaNYL and we need to do everything we can to stop that just to introduce *** couple of people behind me. Um This is special agent, uh Paul Seal, uh special assistant, special agent in charge Paul Seal with the drug enforcement administration. This is group supervisor, Larry Johnson. He is the group supervisor over the Fort team, which is like I said, located here in Hammond and this is Mr Jay Platt. Um, his son is Nicholas Platt, who is the one that um ended up passing due to the uh lethal dose of the fentaNYL. At this time, I'd like to turn it over to our federal partner. Uh Assistant super supervised super special agent, I'm sorry, special agent in charge. Uh Paul Seal. Thanks, Chief, I appreciate it. Um I mean, it's great to be here today. Uh Chief, I appreciate the introduction. Um Chief Bergeron has been with us through the entire process of this four team um since, since January of this year. Uh So we appreciate um you know, your support and guidance in that. Um I do want to start and just talk about the fort concept. Uh talk about uh why we do it um how it, how it got created with DEA and you know, what are, what are our goals in this, in this group and what, what have we done lately? Um The concept came from operation OD Justice, which is an operation from DEA. Um This operation was to utilize DEA as uh *** platform to go out and meet with our state and local agencies to create *** group. Um And everybody's heard of the task forces before. Um DEA gets together with the locals, the States, but we do things *** little bit different. Our goal is *** little bit different this time. Our goal is to investigate overdose poisonings um to go out there and find the individuals distributing fentaNYL in our community and prosecute them to the state or federal government. Um Since 2023 uh, DEA has worked over 350 fatal poisoning investigations with different four groups around the country. Right now. There are 22 4 groups in the United States. We're one of the 22. Um, we've trained over 2500 state and local officers um in how to work these type of cases throughout the country. Anytime I have *** chance to talk uh to the community, I really want to mention what's going on in the nation. Um What's going on in our community here in our backyard. Um Just to start with in 2024 DEA seized over 32 million fentaNYL pills. We seized over 4200 pounds of fentaNYL powder just to give you an idea. That is exact, that is actually 381 million deadly doses of fentaNYL in the United States here locally. Let's talk about that. So our four group formed in January since January of this year for the last 6 to 8 months. We've seized eight pounds of fentaNYL. Eight pounds of fentaNYL equates to 355,000 deadly doses. If you take Saint Tammany Parish and you take Tang HOA Parish, you take the population and put those together, that's enough fentaNYL to pretty much have *** deadly dose for every citizen of these two parishes. That's how serious it is. Without our prosecution teams, we're unable to really do what we do. So I do want to stop and just, just, just call out the district attorney here in tangible parish, Scott Perillo. He's been with us from the beginning of our uh formation of this group. Um He is the one prosecuting in this case, as like chief said, and his office has been extremely supportive in helping us make these cases. Uh District Attorney Colin Sims in Saint Tammany Parish is also on board. He was one of the founding members of this group as far as coming up with the idea and forming this group and of course, the eastern district of Louisiana US Attorney's Office, which we've already uh been able to charge someone federally for this type of crime. So it's, it's the combination of our, of our federal state and local partners with our prosecution teams that, that makes us successful in this um here recently, just to kind of give you an idea of what we're doing to kind of improve this, this group, this Fort group continues to grow in our community. Um We're putting together an intelligence group and I would like to thank the Louisiana National Guard Counter Drug Unit. They have provided two intel analysts to our group specifically to work these four cases. Um them Saint Tammany Parish, uh Hammond PD, Louisiana State Police. Um All have formulated an intel group to help us with this, which is vital to these type of cases. Um Lastly, I just want to stop and I want to thank the family for being here. Um It means *** lot for, for us that you're here. Um We, we do everything, we do what we do every day to get *** result like this to, to make our community safer. But I can tell you that it's very motivating for myself, my team, uh to, to have you guys stay here with us. So thank you very much for you guys being here today. Thank you. So as he mentioned, our state and local partners, um I will tell you that when we arrested, uh, the suspect we located him or he was located in Livingston Parish. Uh We need to thank Sheriff Jason, um, Sheriff Jerald with Livingston Parish sheriff's office. Uh We also need to thank the tangible parish sheriff's office. Uh And the list goes on and on the team has to be together. Everybody has to work together. You know, often I say that the only people that know jurisdictional lines are the police and the politicians and it's teams like this that can get us to go across jurisdictional lines to be able to make the arrest and put the criminals in jail. As Mr Seale mentioned, Agent Sele mentioned, although we understand that this doesn't bring back uh Nicholas, we hope that this brings closure to the family in some way and speaking with the family. Um they want to make sure that the message gets out and hopefully it saves somebody else um from going down the same road. So at this time, Mr Platt would like to say *** few words on behalf of our family. I would like to thank Chief Bergeron, his team of detectives, the DEA and all the members of the task force. I've only met *** couple of them but their tireless efforts and refusing to give up may bring justice to our son. They treated our son with humanity and dignity. He was *** loving father and *** and son. He had *** daughter, they adored dearly without their tireless efforts. We would never see justice done and hopefully this will keep other families from having to stand here. Thank you from this point. Uh As I said earlier, um, at some point, the District attorney's office will present it to the grand jury and the prosecution will lay within the 21st judicial district uh uh district attorney Scott Peru in his office. Uh Is there any questions Chief you mentioned this is ***, first of its kind of prosecution. You feel like you're kind of getting the ball rolling now and, and with the team that you put together, you might be able to, uh, put *** dent in this significant problem. *** absolutely. And listen, this was the first case. We started the Ford program and really got it. Now, the concept early January, by the time I got off the ground, they got their agents moved up here and, and we got the office set up. It, it took *** little bit and the first case was January 26th. I believe it was, that's pretty quick for this to come when we first started. So I will tell you there are many other cases that we're working or several other cases that we are working and we're going to continue to work. I think it's important and, and Mr Platt said it is, you know, these are victims, um these are victims that are falling um to this deadly drug. And, you know, we need to make sure as *** community, uh we need to make sure as *** law enforcement community as *** regular community, as an all around society that we understand that this is *** poison that this is ***, *** challenge for people and people may make mistakes, but that, that doesn't dictate who they are and how much law enforcement or how much um action they should get on their case. And what we should do. And it's just important as this keeps developing, we're going to keep developing cases as more agencies are coming on board. I know, uh, in speaking with some of the guys earlier today and my counterparts, I know Covington Police Department and, and, and I mean, all the way up and down the I 12 corridor or are looking to jump on board and this team is just growing day in and day out and it's really catching, catching *** lot of strength on the North Shore. And we're going to continue to work cases, you know, as Hammond police officers, as Hammond police narcotics division, but also as the four team and hopefully stretch us out as far as we can to make sure that we get the criminal prosecution for the people that are putting this on the streets. I just wanna make *** couple of, yeah, this was the first case 14 and was this the first rep. So this is the first case that we assumed that we took on as *** responding officers from the four team responded to uh the call on scene that evening and began processing as *** crime scene. Yes. Um The, we have made another arrest um or *** couple of other arrests by the four team. This is the 1st 2nd degree murder charge or the first murder charge we've been able to charge somebody with. Um and, and we will be prosecuted through the 21st judicial y'all form this four team, you know, for this exact reason to get those types of people off the street. Um Just knowing that, you know, y'all form this team for that reason and you know, it seems to have worked and you're getting other arrests. You know, how thankful are y'all and how proud are you all to know that this process seems to be working before, should be working more. I will tell you as the chief of police, I can stand up here and say that I am proud of the job that our officers do. Um I, I can tell you as the chief of police, I can give the resources, I can give the opportunities, but it's our men and women that come out here and do it every day that, that take these cases and work them and they don't give up and they stay working the cases. Um Any police department, um any chief of police, any sheriff, any, anybody in *** leadership role is only as good as the people below him. And I, I can't tell you how proud I am of this whole team and how they've come together, how they've worked and look, it starts even with our patrol officers when they show up on scene and they recognize that this could be, you know, *** certain type of overdose and they make the phone call to our narcotics guys and then the piece people are activated to come out. You know, it's *** step from the, from the patrol guy that received the initial call all the way, um, through the investigators that show up. So our department is only as good and our team is only as good as the officers that are working. And I can tell you, I think we have some of the best detectives, some of the best narcotics guys and some of the best officers in the state on *** local level. The 14 was established early January just prior to this um, happening and by the time we got it up and actually going, um, this was the first case that we received. Um, and like I said, this is the first case that we're able to move forward on *** second degree murder charge and all the rest in other cases. Can you talk *** little bit about those and have they gone to prostitute? So I can tell you we've made uh, many arrests, um, fentaNYL arrests recently. Uh, we've done multiple search warrants over the last month or so. Um, as, uh, special agent seal mentioned, um, I believe it was eight pounds of fentaNYL. We have gotten off the streets since this team has started. Uh, it takes time to go through prosecution. Um, we can make the arrest, we can put the cases together, but it lies within the hands of the district attorney. And we're just fortunate to have *** district attorney that supports our effort as much as he does. Any other questions?