Four men pleaded guilty Tuesday to the June 2017 brutal beating and robbery of two men in the French Quarter.
The two victims were visiting from Boston, attending the annual general assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association. The men were walking in the 200 block of Bienville Street around 9 p.m. when they were knocked to the ground from behind and robbed. Surveillance video captured the attack, which left one of the men with a fractured nose and the other with an acute brain injury.
Dejuan Paul, 22, Rashaad Piper, 21, Nicholas Pogozelski, 19, Joshua Simmons, 19 all pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree robbery.
Paul was sentenced to 15 years, with seven years suspended and five years of active probation. Piper and Pogozelski were sentenced to 15 years, with 10 years suspended and five years of active probation and Joshua Simmons was sentenced to three years.