Crime Press Releases

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office SWAT team arrested a man who is wanted in Texas for manslaughter and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. The suspect, Lawalter Brown, is known to use many aliases and had been on the run from...

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a shooting in LaPlace on Monday (Dec. 23, 2024) that has left the possible shooters, both men, in critical condition. Evidence from the on-going investigation indicates that the men, identified...

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a shooting in LaPlace in which two people were shot. The Sheriff’s Office responded to the 2100 block of Van Arpel Drive around 3:40 p. m. Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, after receiving reports of...

A 30-year-old Reserve man is in the St. John the Baptist Parish jail after he approached a 15-year-old boy outside of a LaPlace store on Monday (Dec. 16) evening and propositioned him for sex in exchange for money. The boy reported the incident to an off-duty St. John...

Alfred Roy Cobb, the Baton Rouge man wanted in connection with several ATM burglaries in St. John the Baptist Parish and other parishes, has been arrested in Temple, Texas. Cobb was arrested without incident Dec. 12 by U.S. Marshals after they found him at a U-Haul...

An illegal drug case investigated by the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration has resulted in a guilty plea by Terry Reed of Lafayette on three counts of violating the Federal Controlled Substances and Federal Gun...

A LaPlace man is in the St. John the Baptist Parish jail after being arrested for theft and armed robbery of a pizza delivery driver. Montrell Isom, 18, was arrested Tuesday, Dec. 10 after St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators used technology to...

A LaPlace man has been arrested and booked with several charges, including possession of illegal narcotics and cruelty to juveniles after four students at East St. John Preparatory Academy in LaPlace ingested THC edibles. The edibles were brought to school by an...

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office Narcotics Division arrested three people and booked them with possession with intent to distribute Methamphetamine following a traffic stop Saturday (Nov.23) in Garyville, LA. During the course of a traffic stop...

The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting death of a 51-year-old man following a disturbance at a home in the 2100 block of Williamsburg Drive in LaPlace on Thursday (Nov. 21, 2024) night. St. John Sheriff's Office detectives say...