Jerry Rogers, the federal agent who criticized the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office’s handling of the Nanette Krentel murder investigation in emails sent to her family, is suing Sheriff Randy Smith in federal court over his arrest last year for criminal defamation. Sheriff Randy Smith released a statement yesterday that said in part, “Although I have not yet been served with the federal lawsuit referenced in the story, I am confident that any lawsuit that may be filed by Brian Trainor, former Chief Deputy under Jack Strain, on behalf of Jerry Rogers, another long-time Strain employee, will prove to be frivolous and without merit.” Rogers supposedly sent 10 anonymous emails to Kim Watson, the dead woman’s sister, between Dec. 29, 2017, and June 29, 2019. The Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation into the emails at some point in 2019, a probe that led them to Rogers.
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