Security footage shows ‘Bourbon Street Hustler’ leading reporter to hotel before his death

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Security footage has surfaced that shows Danette Colbert leading sports reporter Adan Manzano into a New Orleans area hotel room, where he was later found dead.

The video, which was obtained by the Daily Mail, shows Colbert — known to many as the “Bourbon Street Hustler” — with Manzano in the lobby of a hotel in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner, police said.

Footage shows the two entered the Comfort Suites hotel around 5 a.m. on Feb. 5 and, over the next few hours, Colbert left the room, came back, and left again.

Manzano, 27, appears coherent in the footage, following Colbert through the lobby to his room. It remains unclear where the pair met.

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But Manzano, a reporter for Telemundo Kansas City who was in town to cover the Super Bowl, never left the room and was found dead that night, Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said.

Manzano’s phone and credit card were missing from the room and the card was used for fraudulent charges in stores around New Orleans.

Colbert, 48, was arrested the next day and the credit card and phone — along with narcotics and a stolen firearm – were found during a sweep of her house, according to police.

“She’s a career criminal … Ms. Colbert has quite a record and rap sheet for confidence games, access device fraud, and robbery schemes,” Conley said, detailing a long history of theft and credit card fraud.

Colbert has been involved in at least two cases of seducing, drugging and robbing men.

According to the Daily Mail, New Orleans locals referred to her as the “Bourbon Street Hustler.”

Colbert has been charged with property crimes in connection to the death of Manzano, but she has not been charged with murder.

Authorities said the investigation “is still ongoing” and her charge may be upgraded when police obtain a coroner’s report, which could take weeks.

“As soon as the coroner finishes with his findings, he will classify it as either a homicide or whatever death the evidence leads him to,” Conley said.

Manzano’s wife died in April 2024 in a car crash. The couple had a two-year-old daughter, who also was injured in the crash.