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• Sheriff: Missing 14-year-old girl likely with man she met online

  October 14, 2021 3:23 PM

  Sheriff's deputies are looking for a teenage girl who left home and is likely with an adult male she met online. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said Kayla Watkins, 14, was last seen at her home Oct. 7. Detectives said they're concerned for her safety, adding she is believed... more »

• Man wakes to arrest after violent attack on ex-girlfriend and her kids

  December 16, 2017 10:18 AM

  BATON ROUGE – A woman's ex-boyfriend was arrested Friday after a near two-week ordeal where authorities said he threatened the victim, kidnapped her and her kids and abandoned them in an unsafe area of the city. DaCarie Jones, 26, was charged with kidnapping, child desertion, illegally using the woman's... more »

• Prime suspect in kidnapping whose sidekicks died arrested

  August 11, 2017 7:08 PM

  LAFAYETTE - A man wanted in connection with a kidnapping case that involved authorities in West Baton Rouge has been arrested. Lawrence Michael Handley was arrested in Slidell Friday afternoon. He will be transferred to Lafayette Police custody, authorities said. A U.S. Marshals Task Force, a special group of... more »

• Family in fear after man held for ransom, sodomized at Baton Rouge home Play Video

  August 9, 2017 4:35 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Police are searching for three people connected to a violent attack on a man that left the victim's family living in fear as the trio made a slew of ransom demands recently. Almoine Lemar Powell, Damar Xavier Coleman and Samuel Josea Smith, Jr., are wanted on... more »

• Duplantier murder suspect arrives in Louisiana Play Video

  December 4, 2015 11:00 AM

  BATON ROUGE - The man accused of murdering two Baton Rouge residents and fleeing to Florida is back in Louisiana according to authorities. Baton Rouge Police confirmed 42-year-old Ernesto Alonso was extradited to the state Friday. A second suspect in the murders, 48-year-old Frank Garcia, remains in Florida. ... more »