A married Louisiana TV anchor has abruptly quit his job after he was accused of sexting with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl. But, when he set up a meet with the teen, “she” turned out to be a trio of vigilante “predator hunters,” according to reports.
Bill Lunn, 59, who was news director and a key on-air face at KTBS in Shreveport, arranged the meetup at his home during lunchtime on May 29, the vigilantes told NBC6 News. When three men arrived, he called the cops — and claimed the men beat him up and tried to steal his truck.
However, the amateur sleuths — Antonio Coleman, Kameron Kennon and Kataurio Grigsby — waited for the cops and told their side of the story.
They handed over what they said was a trove of evidence that proved Lunn’s pervy behavior.
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“You could see the guilt in his eyes. He knew like, ‘Oh, I’m done,’” Coleman told the station.
Bill Lunn, 59, resigned as anchor and news director of the KTBS station on Monday after police started probing claims he’d been sexting an underage girl. Facebook / Bill Lunn
The trio, who describe themselves as “predator hunters,” said they’d created a fake profile on dating app Meet Me and had been posing as the teen for several weeks in a bid to “catfish” local men who were trying to meet underage girls for sex.
They claimed Lunn started engaging with the so-called teen late on May 28 — the night before he allegedly made arrangements to meet.
“They had a little conversation going on, and he asked how old she was. The girl told him she was 15 years old,” Coleman, who claimed he was pretending to be the teen, told NBC 6.
The TV anchor’s alleged plan to meet the girl was foiled when Lunn found himself face to face with three men who claimed to be conducting their own pedophile sting operation. Facebook / Bill Lunn
“He was like sending pictures to her. He was saying like he wanted to do this to her,” he continued. “Explicit things that I can’t say on camera.”
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When the news anchor arrived at his home for the meetup, Coleman said, he quickly fled after the trio alerted him to the sting operation.
“As Bill was running off, he yells, ‘I have a wife and kids,’” Grigsby said.
“I’m sitting there as he’s running off, like in my head, ‘How can you say that when you literally walked yourself in the house expecting to meet an underage teenager?’”
Lunn, a married father, has “vehemently” denied the allegations leveled against him, his lawyer told The Post. Facebook / Bill Lunn
Lunn’s attorney, Dhu Thompson, told The Post on Wednesday that the newsman “vehemently denies” the allegations leveled against him.
“It is our preliminary understanding that this incident was not the result of a law enforcement investigation, but rather one done by private individuals,” Thompson said in a statement.
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“Our primary concern at this time is that law enforcement receives all evidence surrounding this incident so that they can make a thorough and complete review. Mr. Lunn has cooperated with authorities and vehemently denies any allegations of wrongdoing.
Bill Lunn was allegedly caught by “predator hunters” posing as a 15-year-old girl. Facebook / Bill Lunn
“It is our hope that after a thorough review of all the evidence surrounding this matter that Mr. Lunn will be shown to be innocent and cleared of all allegations.”
Lunn started working at KTSB in 2019 and was promoted to news director last August, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The TV station launched an internal investigation immediately after learning of the incident outside his home last week.
“His resignation was effective immediately on Monday,” the outlet said.
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So far, no charges have been brought against Lunn or the men involved in the sting.
The Post reached out to local cops but didn’t hear back immediately.
Louisiana’s initial unemployment insurance claims increased for the week ending June 7, according to data released by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
The state reported 2,471 initial claims, up from 2,131 the previous week—a 15.9% increase. Compared to the same period last year, when 2,193 initial claims were filed, the number reflects a 12.7% year-over-year rise.
Continued unemployment insurance claims, which reflect the number of individuals still receiving benefits, rose to 11,212 for the week, up from 10,569 the prior week. However, the figure remains 13.9% lower than the 13,030 continued claims reported during the same week in 2024.
Louisiana voters will return to the polls to decide whether to approve a constitutional amendment that would permanently raise teacher salaries by $2,250 and support staff salaries by $1,125 under a pair of bills that received final passage in the Legislature on Thursday.
House Bill 466 by Rep. Josh Carlson, R-Lafayette, and HB 473 by Rep. Julie Emerson, R-Carencro, will ask voters to approve eliminating multiple constitutionally protected education trust funds in favor of giving raises to Louisiana teachers, who make roughly $5,000 less on average than educators in other southern states and about $15,000 less than the national average, according to data from the Southern Regional Education Board. If voters approve the amendment, teachers will receive the raises in the 2026-27 school year.
The raises are slightly higher than the $2,000 and $1,000 pay bumps the bills originally proposed. The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved the additional increase Thursday. Both pieces of legislation now head to the governor’s desk for his signature.
“I brought this bill on behalf of our teachers,” Carlson said in a statement. “We wanted to ensure that we did all we could to provide a permanent pay raise.”
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The bills, which repackage part of a constitutional amendment championed by Gov. Jeff Landry that voters shot down earlier this year, are the state’s latest effort to increase educators’ compensation. Lawmakers failed several times in recent years to increase their pay, opting instead for one-time stipends three years in a row. If signed into law, the bills will turn the stipend amount teachers currently receive into a slightly larger permanent pay increase.
Emerson’s bill eliminates three trust funds that funnel millions annually toward state K-12 education initiatives, including early childhood education, student testing help and efforts to improve struggling schools. Instead, the trust funds would be used to pay off longstanding debts related to Louisiana’s teacher retirement system, which is expected to save school districts $2 billion in interest payments. Carlson’s bill mandates that school systems use the savings to give teachers raises.
The bill also requires the state to step in to subsidize the full cost of the raises for districts that do not realize enough savings to do so on their own. It will also cover the estimated $16.7 million to give raises to teachers and staff at charter schools that don’t pay into the retirement system.
The state will have to spend around $250,000 to fund the raises in the roughly seven districts that are expected to come up short in their savings, according to cost estimates for Carlson’s bill. Other districts are expected to have nearly $36 million left over after providing the raises, which the legislation says can be put toward a limited number of uses, including giving teachers additional pay bumps.
If the governor signs the bills into law, Louisiana voters will then need to approve changing the state constitution to eliminate the trust funds. Lawmakers say that vote will likely not happen until April 2026.
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The state’s largest teachers union supports the raises but has expressed concerns about funding them through debt-payment savings.
Louisiana Federation of Teachers President Larry Carter told lawmakers last month that it would be better to include the pay increases in the state’s school-funding formula to prevent the money from being funneled toward different uses down the road.
Educators “cannot rely on good intentions alone,” he said, adding that “we want to get some guarantees.”
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – On June 11, many CVS customers woke up to a text from the pharmacy chain that said it would have to close its locations in Louisiana because of HB 358, which passed both the House and Senate. That bill would force CVS Health to stop operating CVS Caremark, alongside other pharmacies that own Pharmaceutical Benefit Managers (PBMs) in Louisiana.
On June 11, many CVS customers woke up to a text from the pharmacy chain that said it would have to close its locations in Louisiana because of HB 358; which passed both the House and Senate.(WAFB)
“If you choose to be a PBM, you can still be a PBM but you cannot be a PBM and a pharmacy,” Rep. Dustin Miller proclaimed on the House floor. His bill would do just that, separating what he says is a conflict of interest in the pharmaceutical industry.
A PBM is essentially a middleman between pharmacies, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers that works to set drug prices. PBMs make their profits by spread pricing, or through the difference between what they bill insurance companies and the rebate to the pharmacy.
Oftentimes, these PBMs are owned by the pharmacies that they work with, even though they work across the industry. Lawmakers allege this drives business away from independent pharmacies and strangles small business.
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“They set the rates and the reimbursement for the pharmacies; we are just telling them if that is your core responsibility, you can keep that as your core responsibility,” Miller said. “We don’t want you to also go open a pharmacy and steer people to you and compete against other pharmacies.”
On June 11, many CVS customers woke up to a text from the pharmacy chain that said it would have to close its locations in Louisiana because of HB 358; which passed both the House and Senate.(WAFB)
Many House lawmakers took to the floor to call out CVS for what they said are scare tactics. The text and emails claimed sent by CVS claimed lawmakers were trying to get CVS to shut down its businesses.
“No, we’re not you liars,” Baton Rouge Republican Rep. Dixon McMakin said. “Quit being liars, quit using scare tactics.”
But Rep. Edmond Jordan said everyone needs to take a chill pill.
“Independent pharmacies aren’t going to close tomorrow, in fact, they are doing better than they have in several years,” Jordan said. “If CVS decides to leave, hopefully, we have people there to make up that difference.”
House Bill 358 now heads to the governor’s desk for final signature. Governor Landry has said online that he supports the new regulations.
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