A Louisiana mother has been accused of abandoning young son on the side of the road and then reporting that he’d been kidnapped. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that it was called at about 1 a.m. on on November 5 by Artasia Quantaya Viges, who said she had stopped to deal with …
A Louisiana police chief admitted “infidelity” led to one of his officers shooting him and his wife before Christmas. Opelousas Police Officer Savannah Butler surrendered to the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office on January 1 and was charged with two counts of negligent injury and one count each of obstruction of justice and illegal dscharge …
A man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body, with her limbs amputated, in Louisiana three years ago has been arrested. US Marshals tracked down Carl Tates, 61, in Madison County, Mississippi, on September 7, an affidavit filed in the case said. He’s being held without bond on a fugitive warrant from Texas, …
A 15-year-old boy is dead after a juvenile on a joyride in a stolen SUV with four other children passengers crashed in Louisiana’s St Landry Parish just outside Opelousas. The driver fled the scene on foot, and investigators are searching for him. Louisiana State Police said they briefly pursued the Ford Explorer at about 2 …
