BATON ROUGE — A grand jury has indicted a Baton Rouge man who police say killed 15-year-old Ja’Derrius Minnieweather before dumping the teenager’s body in a garbage can, leading to a five-week search for Minnieweather’s remains in the East Baton Rouge Landfill.
Maurice Parms, 51, was arrested for first-degree murder after investigators searched multiple different locations in Baton Rouge. He was indicted on that charge, second-degree rape, trafficking and two counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile.
Parms was originally arrested in early June for indecent behavior with a juvenile and computer-aided solicitation of a minor. Police found messages between Parms and a 16-year-old girl while investigating Minnieweather’s disappearance…