Crime & Safety

GA Father Was Doing Drugs With 2 Women Before His Death: Warrant

An arrest warrant said that Nathan Millard was doing drugs with two women at a house in south Baton Rouge when he lost consciousness.

BATON ROUGE, LA — The 42-year-old Georgia father and businessman who went missing in Louisiana and was found dead in early March was doing drugs and engaging with prostitutes when he died of an overdose, according to arrest warrants obtained by WSB-TV.

The warrants for the two women arrested in connection with the case said that the father, Nathan Millard, was doing drugs with two women at a house in south Baton Rouge when he lost consciousness. According to the warrants, police said a 45-year-old man named Derrick Perkins attempted to revive Millard with Narcan, but when the treatment failed, rolled Millard’s body up in plastic and a rug.

One of the two woman accused in Millard's disappearance, Tiffany Ann Guidry, is accused of helping Perkins load the body into the trunk of his car and dispose of the body outside of a funeral home on March 6, the warrants said.

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Guidry was arrested Friday and booked on charges of unlawful disposal of human remains, prostitution and failure to seek assistance, Baton Rouge Police said Thursday.

Perkins was charged Monday after being accused of improperly disposing Millard's body. He is also facing charges of obstruction of justice, simple criminal damage to property, and failure to seek assistance, police said.

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It’s unclear if Perkins and Guidry are facing any additional charges.

Police are still seeking the other woman accused in Millard's disappearance, Tabbetha Barner, who has an active arrest warrant for prostitution and failure to seek assistance.

Millard was found dead around 3:30 a.m., March 6, in the 2900 block of Scenic Highway after being missing since Feb. 23, Baton Rouge Police said.

Perkins was previously arrested the night of March 12 on suspicion of probation violation, criminal damage to property, three counts of access device fraud and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle charges. He was taken to the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Millard was in Baton Rouge on a business trip. Police used video surveillance to track his movements and said he was seen leaving a downtown business around 10:30 p.m., Feb. 22, and went to a Greyhound station about an hour later.

At the bus station, a security guard offered to call Millard an Uber or call the police for him but Millard declined, Capt. Kevin Heinz of the department's violent crimes unit, said at past news conference. Heinz said he did not appear to be in distress but "appeared to be out of place." He later left the station.

Millard was seen over the next several hours at different businesses in Baton Rouge and police tracked his last location at 4:30 a.m.

The Advocate, a Louisiana-based newspaper, reported Millard's body was found wrapped in a rug and plastic and had been left near fast-food restaurants.

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