Avery-Grace Hebert crowned Erath High homecoming queen
Earth High crowned Avery-Grace Hebert as the homecoming queen on Friday night.
Earth High crowned Avery-Grace Hebert as the homecoming queen on Friday night.
On Thursday, at 8:30 a.m. Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s School Resource Officer Deputy Brooks David responded to a male subject seen jumping a fence at the North Vermilion High School near the gym. An immediate lockdown of the school was initiated.
Several units with the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office and the Maurice Police Department were dispatched. A perimeter was set up, and a search of the school grounds located a male subject identified as Colby Clayous Mitchell (D.O.B. 01/01/1985). Mitchell was located on the school campus parking lot. He was apprehended without incident.
A Vermilion Parish woman has been arrested for stealing from a person she was hired to care for. Deputies with the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office received a complaint regarding checks that were being issued without authorization.
Around 12:20 on Thursday, the Abbeville Police Department received a phone call about an active shooter at Abbeville High School.
The complaint was deemed false, and the source is being investigated.
Abbeville High was placed on lockdown for about two hours. School buses began to arrive at AHS at 2:30 in time for school to end.
Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hadry and his officers walked through each classroom, searching for a possible shooter.
He later learned the phone call could be a national prank that had happened to other schools nationwide.
What started out as joy ride in a sugar cane field, turned into a scary ordeal for three teenagers in Vermilion Parish.
According to Eddie Langlinais, Public Information Officer, and Violent Crimes Task Force Director for the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office, on September 17, 2022, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigative Division was called out to investigate a report of an armed robbery that took place in the Leroy area of Vermilion Parish.
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