A Rapides Parish judge found no probable cause for three charges against a Lecompte man, one of five people arrested after a complaint in April.
Virgil Joseph Jr., 49, was arrested not long after the complaint was filed with the Lecompte Police Department. The mother of a juvenile accused another man of inappropriately touching the child, according to the department.
Joseph and four others were arrested after the investigation. On Wednesday, he was in court before 9th Judicial District Court Judge Mary Lauve Doggett, seeking to reduce his $108,000 bail and to determine if there was probable cause to move forward with the charges against him.
All five were arrested on April 9, according to the Lecompte Police Department.
Chief Ross Ducote said the department received a complaint about the possible abuse of two juveniles. The investigation included interviews of the victims at the Children s Advocacy Network, after which warrants were obtained.
Arrested were Raymond Jack Jr., 51, and Rhonda Denise Jack, 37, both of the 3000 block of Pine Street; Virgil Joseph Jr., 49, and Shemela Davis, 35, both of the 2200 block of St. Charles Street; and Sherman Brooks, 58, of the 3000 block of Government Street.
All five were booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center #1 in downtown Alexandria.
Raymond Jack was booked with resisting an officer, second-degree sexual battery, indecent behavior with juveniles, carnal knowledge of a juvenile and molestation of a juvenile older than 13 but younger than 17.
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Two Boyce residents have been arrested after a complaint about the alleged sexual abuse of a minor, according to the Rapides Parish Sheriff s Office.
The complaint was taken on March 6, and detectives began an investigation that soon focused on Christian Henry McLendon, 29, and Mattie Kay Robbins, 69, both of the 500 block of St. Clair Road, reads a release.
Detectives worked with the Louisiana Department of Child and Family Services and the Children s Advocacy Network during the investigation into the original allegation, as well as additional ones that were uncovered.
Both were arrested on March 12 and booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center #1 in downtown Alexandria.