Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 14, 2020.

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 13, 2020.

Calcasieu District Attorney John DeRosier is retiring at the end of this year, he announced Wednesday morning.

A man has been arrested after being accused of stealing from an elderly or disabled member of his family

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 11, 2020.

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 10, 2020.

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 7, 2020.

Police are currently treating the shooting as a homicide

Authorities say the suspect has been arrested for similar crimes outside of Sulphur

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 5, 2020.

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 4, 2020.

Calcasieu Correctional Center booking report for May 3, 2020.

The suspect in Wednesday’s officer-involved shooting has been booked into Calcasieu Correctional Center.

A shooting has been reported near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Tulip Street, officials confirm.

Two people are under arrest and one person is being sought in connection with a home invasion and armed robbery in Vinton, authorities say.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Ricky Langley. Langley was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 for the killing of 6-year-old Jeremy Guillory in 1992.

A 74-year-old Lake Charles man is accused of molesting an 11-year-old girl.

Authorities are searching for an escaped trustee who walked off his job detail in Lake Charles, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office.

A man has been arrested following a shooting near DeRidder.

Superstar Zion Williamson of the New Orleans Pelicans has teamed up with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn state residents of price gouging and scammers looking to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic

The head of Louisiana’s Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DOC), Secretary James Le Blanc, announced April 14 he is working to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the state’s prisons by creating a special COVID-19 review panel.

The ACLU is asking a federal court to take immediate action to evaluate and release medically vulnerable inmates from the federal prison in Oakdale.

The child was found alone at a store in Vinton

Beauregard Sheriff’s Office finds prisoner that left work site

Lake Charles man pleads guilty in federal court to production of child pornography

Four men have been arrested in connection to a rape at a home in South Lake Charles on Saturday, April 4.

Cameron man found dead in Newton County, Texas

One Lake Charles police officer was stabbed in the leg and another suffered cuts to his hands while they were responding to a call in the 2300 block of 21st Street on Sunday, authorities say. Their injuries were non-life threatening.

Gretna man who beat father to death, arrested in Jennings

Westlake man arrested for house fire

Jennings police are investigating a home invasion and assault on Gallup Street this afternoon, authorities said.

Second inmate at Oakdale federal prison dies from coronavirus

Lake Charles Police Department were called to the 1700 block of Hodges Street in regards to a home invasion at 7:01 a.m. on Mar. 31

The body of Gavin Blaine Benoit, 18, of Vinton, was left at Moss Memorial around 12:37 p.m., according to information from Lt. Jeff Keenum, with the Lake Charles Police Department.

The victim says she had been held for five months in Kenner, LA

The suspect was found sleeping in a parked car outside a mobile home

The Sheriff's Office asks anyone with information to contact them

Jameson is considered armed and dangerous and should not be approached.

Two men were arrested following an incident on Cline St.

State officials have begun an investigative audit into the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office.

Four bronze plaques have been stolen from the graves of veterans at Magnolia Cemetery in Ragley, authorities have confirmed.

The suspect was arrested following a complaint that he poured gas on his girlfriend

A judge in Idaho has lowered Lori Vallow’s bond from $5 million to $1 million, Idaho news stations are reporting.

A man has been arrested for suspected bank fraud and identity theft

The suspect was arrested for attempted second-degree murder

The Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office has fired a prosecutor following his handling of a continuance motion in a homicide case last month, officials confirm.

Sulphur police officer Ben Richard was arrested in Lake Charles by Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies on Saturday, Feb. 29 for first-offense operating while intoxicated.

Jayden Grant Theunissen, 19, was indicted on one count of second-degree murder Monday in connection with the shooting death of 22-year-old Dakota Chaisson at the Toby Ward Event Hall in November.

Deputies say the man was threatening a student at the school

The Lake Charles Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying a suspect in a bank robbery around 3:30 p.m. Feb. 28, at Jeff Davis Bank in the 2000 block of Gerstner Memorial Drive.

Westlake man accused of soliciting sex with juvenile in Metairie.

According to investigators, she bought a 2020 Can-Am side-by-side worth $27,000 with a company credit card.

That’s the real-life nightmare that happened to a Lake Charles woman who wants to remain anonymous. She says it’s been over a month since she was shot in the arm at her Gelpi Drive home and there are still no arrests.

Christina Fant, 42, and Jennifer Stracener, 44, were arrested for felony animal cruelty.

The Third Circuit said in December that Aaron G. Hauser is eligible for parole based on a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that defendants who committed crimes as juveniles cannot be sentenced to life in prison without parole without a hearing to consider their youth.

The suspects are accused of causing over $10,000 worth of damage.

Former minister John Michael Ward has been sentenced in federal court to 60 years in prison for production of child pornography. He still faces charges in state district court.

Leo Laird, 64 of Oakdale, has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree rape, and aggravated kidnapping for the 1980 death of 18-year-old Donna Gayle Brazzell in Gardner. The grand jury returned a true bill on Tuesday.