Crime Press Releases

On Thursday, December 4, 2014, at 1:23 pm, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Hollis Braxton, 40, of Marigold Street in Mt Airy. Deputies arrested Braxton in Reserve near the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Beech Grove Drive on an...

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, at 9:23 pm, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the 100 block of Montegut Avenue in LaPlace for the report of a man bleeding and laying in the street. Responding deputies found the man unresponsive and not...

St John Sheriff's Office is asking the public for assistance in identifying the suspect in this video. He is wanted for questioning regarding a burglary that took place on November 18, 2014, at 3:40am in the 3000 block of US Hwy 51 in LaPlace. The suspect is wanted...

Grayland Washington   Anthony Lennix Romon Granger Travoris Thomas   Shane Nicholson Two joint narcotics investigations with the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office Narcotics Division, U.S. Homeland Security, and U.S. Postal Service led to the...

 On Thursday morning, November 6, 2014, the U.S. Marshall's Fugitive Task Force arrested Joel Martin, 27, of LaPlace on an outstanding St. John the Baptist Parish judicial court ordered arrest warrant. The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office wanted...

  On Tuesday, November 4, 2014, at 9:14 am, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 700 block of Colony Drive in LaPlace for the report of the burglary of car in progress. A witness saw a male juvenile rummaging through a parked car....

  On Saturday, November 1, 2014, at 2:30 am, a St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputy met with a 23-year-old Reserve woman at the Ochsner Health Center in LaPlace. Medical staff treated her for cuts, one on her forehead and one below her left eye....

On Monday, November 3, 2014, at 10:47 pm, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies responded to the 100 block of Dove Street in LaPlace for the report of a shooting. Responding deputies located the victim in the driveway of a residence on Hawk Street....

  No trick or treat tonight for the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Office deputies working the registered sex offender detail. It will be all business as six teams of deputies canvass the parish for compliance checks of all registered sex offenders in the...

On Thursday, October 16, 2014, at 11:39 pm, deputies responded to a residence in the 300 block of Central Avenue in Reserve for the report of a man armed with a knife in the complainant's residence. When deputies arrived, the 41-year-old female victim told deputies...