NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Well-known New Orleans musician Glen David Andrews pleaded guilty in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on Tuesday, November 12, to resolve four felony counts filed against him.

Some cases of the singer-trombonist, who is the second-row indispensable part of the Jazz Festival and New Orleans and is also known as the “Prince of Treme”, have been pending since 2019. But he signed a plea deal on Tuesday, just before his domestic violence case was finally settled. Arrive in Judge Leon Roche’s courtroom.

Andrews, 44, pleaded guilty to charges of domestic violence (second offense) and domestic abuse by endangering children in that case.

Andrews also pleaded guilty to a fentanyl possession charge in a separate case stemming from a December 2019 vehicle crash in the French Quarter.

Andrews was charged with armed robbery involving a knife in a separate case, but was allowed to accept a reduced sentence for simple robbery to resolve that charge.

And in the fourth case, in which he was charged with aggravated battery for allegedly hitting a woman at a gas station in New Orleans, Andrews was able to plead guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree battery.

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Andrews was prosecuted by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office after Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams recused himself and his office from the cases.

Williams tapped Andrews as the featured entertainer at his January 2021 inauguration party. The new prosecutor later claimed that he did not know his office had three open cases against Andrews, who was out on bail at the time.

An attorney who previously represented Andrews was also Williams’ former law partner at the firm Jason Williams and Associates.

Andrews is scheduled to be sentenced on December 10.

The AG’s office took no position on sentencing Tuesday. But a law enforcement source said Roche is expected to impose a six-year suspended sentence on the robbery charge and a concurrent five-year sentence on the assault count, which would only be executory if Andrews can’t stay out of trouble during the three-year period. . active probation.

The source said Roche instructed Andrews to prepare to be taken into custody at the end of the sentencing hearing on Dec. 10. The second domestic violence case requires Andrews to serve a mandatory prison sentence of at least 14 days, which would result in the musician being released on Christmas Day.