Andrés Fuentes
Multimedia Journalist
New Orleans, La.
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Andrés Fuentes is a New Orleans native and a 2020 graduate of Loyola University. He joined the FOX 8 News Team in January 2022 as a Multimedia Journalist.
Andrés is a proud member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and comes to FOX 8 having already won awards for his work as a college journalist.
You can follow him on Twitter @news_fuentes or send him an email at andres.fuentes@gray.tv.
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Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 11:08 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Ersel Bogan wants to make an impact in the first year of his camp by giving the city’s youth an outlet they might not have otherwise. Especially one 14-year-old boy who just last month tried to steal Bogan’s van, with his trombone, wife’s purse and his firearms inside.
Updated: May. 26, 2023 at 10:56 AM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
La policía dice que Mechael Yousef Mansoor, de 71 años, de Kenner, fue arrestado el miércoles e inicialmente acusado de lesiones por negligencia y operación imprudente de un vehículo.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 9:00 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
A 12-year-old has been declared brain dead days after a man crashed an ice cream truck into his family’s apartment in Kenner; family members tell Fox 8.
Updated: May. 24, 2023 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
The CEO of Hertz says the company has apologized to and refunded a Puerto Rican man denied a rental car at the New Orleans International Airport.
Updated: May. 22, 2023 at 12:13 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Kenner Police launch an investigation into one of their officers responding to a disturbance call at MSY
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes and Jordan Gartner
A Puerto Rican man says he was wrongly denied a rental car at an airport even though he had proper identification.
Updated: May. 19, 2023 at 1:40 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Después de conectar vuelos nocturnos de Puerto Rico a Nueva Orleans, Humberto Marchand simplemente quería recoger su auto alquilado, encontrar una cena tardía y llevarle algo de comida a su hijo cuando saliera del trabajo.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 9:17 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Puerto Rican man denied rental car at New Orleans airport for not having a passport.
Updated: May. 17, 2023 at 5:00 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Interim NOPD superintendent Michelle Woodfork says she is fed up with the uptick in violent crime plaguing the city, specifically the crime against women.
Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 7:26 AM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
El 15 de mayo, el director ejecutivo Tyrell Morris anunció que el socio tecnológico del distrito, Carbyne, ahora ofrece traducción de audio en vivo en su plataforma de atención de llamadas de emergencia, APEX.
Updated: May. 16, 2023 at 7:23 AM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
On May 15, Executive Director Tyrell Morris announced that the district’s technology partner Carbyne now offers live audio language translation in its emergency call-taking platform, APEX.
Updated: May. 12, 2023 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Karla and Kenny Nuñez cried tears of joy and relief when they saw their four-year-old daughter, Agustina, give a slight smile for the first time in five months.
Updated: May. 12, 2023 at 11:08 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Tucked away in a strip mall at the corner of West Esplanade and Kent Ave., Mawi Tortillas has welcomed hungry customers to their expansion.
Updated: May. 11, 2023 at 11:45 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Artis Silvester says it took almost three hours for Gates of Oakwood maintenance crews to help him with a massive water leak from the ceilings of his bathroom and bedroom.
Updated: May. 9, 2023 at 8:36 AM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Chief Jimmy Travis says the federal agency is looking into the murder weapon, which investigators found in an apartment on Rufus Bankston Road.
Updated: May. 5, 2023 at 11:05 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Loved ones gathered at Tuba Fats Square with drums, horns and chants to honor Sam Jackson. Family members and friends say he was gunned down in a Friday morning (May 5) shooting just a day before he was set to perform at Jazz Fest.
Updated: May. 4, 2023 at 11:05 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Thursday afternoon (May 4), Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams stood side-by-side with notable New Orleans East figures - all united against the crime wave plaguing the city.
Updated: Apr. 21, 2023 at 7:14 AM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s use of the city-owned Pontabla apartment in the French Quarter will now be limited under a new ordinance that the New Orleans City Council passed unanimously.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2023 at 10:01 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
For the past 40 years on Danneel Street, the doors of Neutral Ground Coffeehouse have opened up to patrons eager to perform, create and enjoy the arts - with a coffee or two.
Updated: Apr. 14, 2023 at 12:50 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Shoppers at Algiers Plaza were stunned to find out that their busy shopping center was where a dramatic carjacking happened Wednesday (April 12) afternoon around 5:30 pm.
Updated: Apr. 7, 2023 at 3:11 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
El plan entrará en vigencia para el año escolar 2023-24.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 8:22 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Después de una votación crucial de la Junta Escolar de la parroquia de Jefferson que ahora permitirá el cierre y la fusión de varias escuelas públicas, la estudiante de segundo año de Grace King High, Jasmin Sevilla, dice que todavía es difícil comprender su realidad.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 8:12 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
In the aftermath of a crucial Jefferson Parish School Board vote that will allow for the closure and merger of several public schools, Grace King High sophomore Jasmin Sevilla says it is still hard grasping her reality.
Updated: Mar. 31, 2023 at 4:24 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
In January, police arrested a suspect in connection to Boogie B's death. His mother, Sherilyn Price, says the tears have not stopped.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 4:50 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes and Andrew McMunn
The family's fundraiser has raised over $11,000 as of Monday, surpassing its original goal of $7,500.
Proposed Louisiana bill would make criminal and juvenile case info more accessible in three parishes
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 4:09 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
A proposed measure calls for the creation of pilot programs in Orleans, East Baton Rouge, and Caddo Parishes - some of the most violent parishes in the state.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 3:31 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
The charts predict that if the NOPD does not find a solution to the manpower issue, there could be as few as 830 officers by 2030.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 3:14 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
The family of a New Orleans Lyft driver killed by his passenger is passing on their thanks to the community for raising enough money to send their loved one’s body home to Honduras.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 10:43 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
In a handful of bars across New Orleans, like Another Bar on Freret St., Crescent 9 THC Seltzer is quickly becoming a drink of choice.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 2:09 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes and Jordan Gartner
Police say a man was shot and killed while working for Lyft and picking up a passenger.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 9:56 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
El NOPD dice que Enrique Bardales Valle fue asesinado a tiros poco después de las 2 a.m. del 8 de marzo cerca de un complejo de apartamentos en Morrison Road.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 9:54 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
The NOPD says Enrique Bardales Valle was shot and killed just after 2 a.m. on March 8 near an apartment complex on Morrison Road.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 11:05 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Vacant lots still pepper the neighborhood but when we compared it to last year, there were no more torn-up homes, scattered roofs, or piles of debris.
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 11:18 PM CDT
|By Andrés Fuentes
Former city attorney William Aaron says he’s shocked at the leak and the questions surrounding the investigation.
Updated: Mar. 9, 2023 at 9:20 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Thursday afternoon (March 9), Evangelisto Ramos made his way out of the Orleans Justice Center almost a day after being found not guilty in his second murder trial.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 10:02 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
People gathered in the hundreds before Pontilly Coffee to trek along Chef Menteur Highway to Louisa St. and back again.
Updated: Mar. 8, 2023 at 3:25 PM CST
|By Ken Daley and Andrés Fuentes
Denzal Peters, 26, was booked with aggravated battery and other counts
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 5:12 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Six young people have died to gun violence and another 17 more were hospitalized in New Orleans since the start of the year.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 8:13 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
A quiet Friday afternoon at the DaVita Dialysis Center on Earhart Blvd. after a nearby water main break dropped water pressure in the neighborhood.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:52 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
A day after FOX 8′s Critical Call report, which shows a language interpreter from the company Voiance accusing a Spanish-speaking 911 caller of faking his emergency, New Orleans Councilwoman Helena Moreno wants to see the Orleans Parish Communication District take action.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 4:39 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Intérprete de línea de emergencia 911 viola protocolos durante llamada de hispanohablante víctima de disparos en Nueva Orleans
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:25 AM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
A 911 interpreter violated protocols during an emergency phone call in New Orleans
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 11:18 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
With some of New Orleans’ most iconic Carnival krewes getting their throws together for their nights of revelry, the city’s law enforcement officials say they have the additional help needed to pull off the parades.
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 4:53 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Three juvenile suspects were released from custody late last year and attempts to try a fourth as an adult are in limbo after the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office failed to meet deadlines to formally bring charges.
Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 at 11:11 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Over the past week, some New Orleanians might have gotten a pamphlet from the city that recaps the achievements Mayor LaToya Cantrell was responsible for in 2022.
Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 at 11:07 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
It’s been nearly two weeks since Jan. 15, when LSU student and Covington native Madison Brooks was hit and killed by a car along Burbank Drive.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 11:26 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
As Mayor LaToya Cantrell announced that Mardi Gras krewes could prepare to roll down traditional routes with the security they need, smaller krewes say they’re struggling.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 10:38 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Compared to this time last year, car thefts in New Orleans are up 107% with 461 stolen vehicles in the first 20 days ot 2023.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 8:16 AM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
About a million Entergy Louisiana customers will foot a $1.5 billion repair bill in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 9:56 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes
Cerca de un millón de clientes de Entergy Louisiana pagarán una factura de reparación de $1500 millones después del huracán Ida.
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