Man accused of attempted kidnapping apprehended in Iberia Parish
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IBERIA PARISH - One arrest was made a day after Iberia Parish authorities were called to the scene of an alleged attempted kidnapping on Tuesday, according to KATC.
It was around 8 p.m. when a man who the Iberia Parish Sheriff s Ofice (IPSO) identified as Joshua Boutte tried to leave a location in the 700 block of Lake Dauterive Road with a juvenile.
Deputies were told that Boutte was stopped by a third person who fought him off, and wrested the child away from him.
UPDATE: Authorities arrest alleged abuser who set woman s car on fire
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Monday, December 21 2020
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December 21, 2020 2:50 PM
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BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge man has been booked into the Parish Prison after allegedly setting a woman s car on fire near her home where she and her children were sleeping.
The Baton Rouge Fire Department believes Patrick Chambers, 34, set the victim s car on fire Nov. 25 at her home on Richardson Drive.
The victim said she was awoken by an explosion around 4 a.m. that morning and found her vehicle on fire under her car port. The woman said the fire was raging right next to her home, prompting her to flee the house with her four kids.
Slidell-area man arrested following eight-hour SWAT standoff
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Thursday, December 17 2020
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Authorities engaged in an eight-hour long standoff with a suspect who d barricaded himself in a Slidell-area home on Wednesday (Dec. 16), officials say.
SLIDELLL - Authorities engaged in an eight-hour long standoff with a suspect who d barricaded himself in a Slidell-area home on Wednesday (Dec. 16), officials say.
According to representatives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff s Office (STPSO), 73-year-old Gerald Maxey was finally taken into custody shortly before 3:30 p.m.
UPDATE: The individual is in custody. Thank you to everyone for their cooperation in staying out of the area. We will.
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On Dec. 7, the East Baton Rouge Prison Reform Coalition held a vigil and march after the 44th death in Parish Prison since 2012 a number that far surpasses deaths in jail when compared with national data.
“Words have power they have energy. And what our leaders believe is that there is not any power in these names,” said Linda Franks of the East Baton Rouge Prison Reform Coalition whose son’s name was read among the 44 names.
Frank’s son, Lamar Johnson, was arrested for having tinted windows en route to picking up his grandmother from dialysis in 2016. Parish prison officials claim he committed suicide while in custody.
Several national criminal justice advocacy groups have filed a class action lawsuit against judges in the 19th Judicial District Court, alleging their bail practices discriminate against poor people.Â
The lawsuit claims hundreds of people, most of them poor, Black or both, languish in pretrial detention in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for long periods of time simply because they cannot pay the bail that has been set as the condition for their release. This system inflicts devastating harm on people solely because of their poverty and violates the most fundamental of American axioms, the lawsuit says. That all people are equal under the law and are innocent until they are found guilty. Â