BATON ROUGE — It’s now going on week four as the landfill search continues for Ja’Derrius Minneweather. No one has seen the 15-year-old in more than two months. He was last seen on June 5, 2026. About two weeks after he went missing, the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) arrested 50-year-old Maurice Robbia Parms in connection to Minnieweather’s disappearance.
BRPD believes Minnieweather was murdered on June 5 and his body was hidden in a trash can that was picked up and delivered to the landfill shortly after his death. Crews have been working tirelessly to search the landfill and find Minnieweather’s body.
BRPD Chief T.J. Morse sat down for a one-on-one interview on the Louisiana Unfiltered podcast this week to talk about the ongoing search, investigation, and Parms.
June 5, 2026
According to Chief Morse, BRPD got a missing persons report about Minnieweather on June 5. “Immediately, uniform patrol officers were the first ones to go there, because of the nature of everything,” the chief said. “They looped in missing persons detectives who then took it over, and then the next day, on Saturday, just to be careful, they even looped in the homicide detectives.”…