Police were baffled after someone used a cutting torch to open the vault in a store in the LaHaye building in Ville Platte early in the morning of June 21, 1962.
The Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following recent bookings into the parish jail. Arrested were the following persons:
On Monday, April 24, at approximately 12:35 p.m., officers with the Ville Platte Police Department responded to a call of an unresponsive black male at 621 E. Beauregard St.
A suspect, identified as James “Jimbo” Fontenot, is in custody and was booked into the Evangeline Parish Jail on Wednesday, April 26.
A suspect, identified as Vindezz Thibodeaux, 22, has turned himself into the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office after being wanted by the Mamou Police Department in connection to a shooting that oc
St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s narcotics detectives were looking for one man in Eunice but ended up arresting another on numerous drug offenses.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at 11 a.m. at New Hope Baptist Church for Juanita Freeman Soileau, 69, who entered eternal rest on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, in Christus St.
MAMOU - Helena F. Fontenot passed away peacefully on April 20, 2023, at Heritage Manor of Ville Platte.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at Ninth Baptist Church for Mr. Allen J.
Funeral services will be held at 12 p.m. today, April 27, 2023, at Disciples Baptist Church in Ville Platte for Mrs.