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EPSO Arrests

News Staff

Monday, July 22, 2024

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Fruge

Ward 2 constable, deputy Fruge dies

News Staff

Thursday, July 18, 2024

By: DARREL LEJEUNE LSN Editor Constable Earlin Fruge of the Tiger Point community was buried following a Funeral Mass at St. Anthony’s Church in Eunice on Thursday, July 11 after passing away at St. Francis Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria on Monday, July 8, after a brief illness.

Arthur Sampson (right), chairman of the Ville Platte Housing Authority board, speaks during a press conference held Tuesday, July 9. Also pictured are Ville Platte Chief Deputy City Marshal Nik Cormier (center) and board member Lena Charles (left), who represents the tenants. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)

Recent crimes in housing authority are addressed

News Staff

Thursday, July 11, 2024

By: TONY MARKS Editor Following a spike in recent gun related criminal activity inside the Ville Platte Housing Authority, a press conference was held on Tuesday, July 9. Arthur Sampson, chairman of the housing authority board, said about the criminal activity, “It’s time to put a stop to it.

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Chief gives update on missing person

News Staff

Thursday, July 11, 2024

By: TONY MARKS Editor As the search for Keabreonna Doucet enters its fourth week, Ville Platte Chief of Police Al Perry Thomas provided an update during the city council meeting held Tuesday, July 9. “We are doing all we can and utilizing all the help we can get,” the chief said.

EPSO Arrests

News Staff

Thursday, July 11, 2024

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Local Headline

Inappropriate behavior with juvenile leads to arrest

News Staff

Monday, July 8, 2024

The Criminal Investigations Division with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office, on June 12, was informed of a sexual assault between an uncle and his 10 year-old niece, which took place approximately one year ago.

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Tip leads to arrest of Vidrine in Vernon Parish

News Staff

Monday, July 8, 2024

Deputies with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office, on May 24, received a tip that Triston Vidrine (white male DOB: November 20, 1996), of Ville Platte, who had felony warrants, was at an address on Majic Lane, in Pine Prairie.

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MPD seeks suspect in attempted second degree murder

News Staff

Thursday, July 4, 2024

On March 20, around 10 p.m., a drive-by shooting took place near the 600 block of 7th street, by JD Bank, in Mamou. A brown Buick, occupied by four individuals, drove past teenagers walking home. Two of the teenagers were under the age of 14.

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Permitless Concealed Weapons law goes into effect today

News Staff

Thursday, July 4, 2024

(Editor’s Note: The following is a public service announcement from Sheriff Charles Guillory.) Evangeline Parish is a rural parish where many of us are raised to shoot guns and, of course, go hunting. Many have been shooting guns at an early age, and gun safety was always impressed upon our youth.

EPSO Arrests

News Staff

Thursday, July 4, 2024

The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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