May 24, 2024
Heather Ward, 49, of Lutcher, was arrested May 20, 2024 after stealing more than 90 Oxycodone pills from Gem Drugs in Reserve and selling the drugs on the street. The pills had an estimated street value of $800. Ward, a former pharmacist clerk at the store, is charged...
May 24, 2024
A Reserve woman was booked and has a bond of nearly $97 million for more than 3,800 counts of financial crimes against the elderly. Staci Scioneaux, 40, of Reserve was arrested May 14, 2024 after the SJSO Financial Crimes Unit discovered that she was working as a care...
May 24, 2024
Over the past two weeks, the St. John Parish Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division arrested several men and one woman connected to illegal drug activity in St. John the Baptist Parish. Arrested May 6, 2024 on multiple criminal charges were Timothy Gauff of LaPlace; and...
May 13, 2024
About 95 kilos of cocaine with a street value of about $2.5 million were confiscated during a drug bust March 19, 2024 at a LaPlace home. Officers also discovered eight firearms and about 45 grams of suspected pressed fentanyl pills. Three LaPlace men were arrested in...
May 13, 2024
Timothy Johnson, 24, of LaPlace was arrested Friday, May 10, 2024, for shooting two women and killing one of them. The SJSO arrested Johnson for the murder of Todmonique Joseph, 38, of LaPlace. On May 7, 2024, about 7 p.m., officers responded to the area of South Fig...
Apr 24, 2024
Martrell LaShawn Tuco, 38, of LaPlace was arrested April 18, 2024 after he started a fire in a bathroom of a LaPlace business. On Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, about 8 p.m., officers responded to a business in the 100 block of Belle Terre Boulevard in LaPlace in...
