After a traffic stop on the night of Thursday, April 19, officers from the Ville Platte Police Department and deputies from the Evangeline Parish Sheirff’s Office searched a vehicle in front of Mercy Regional Medical Center in connection with a stolen firearm.
“A felony traffic stop led to an arrest on an outstanding warrant for a 42-year-old Marksville woman,” according to a press release from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The release continued, “Deputies say the stop occurred Thursday night, April 19, 2018. A Sheriff’s Deputy observed a white PT Cruisier believed to be occupied by the wanted suspect. The Deputy stopped the vehicle and identified the driver as Tonya Marie Walker, of the 5000 Block of Highway 107 out of Marksville, LA.
Walker had an outstanding warrant which was issued by the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Department for Theft of a Firearm. She was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Evangeline Parish Jail. The other two occupants of the vehicle were released and the vehicle was towed. The stolen weapon a Smith and Wesson M&P15 was not found.”
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