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Abbeville High School receives active shooter hoax phone call

Thu, 09/22/2022 - 3:07pm

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.

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Brittnie Lea Davis was booked on 2 counts of Armed Robbery and 1 count of Aggravated Assault with a bond of $100,000.

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Codi Morris Baudoin was booked on two counts of Armed Robbery and one count of Aggravated Assault with a bond of $160,000.

Joy ride turns scary for three Vermilion Parish teenagers

Wed, 09/21/2022 - 11:36am

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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On Monday morning, students and staff had to leave the campus because of a bomb threat note located in the school bathroom.

Bomb threat note located in Rene Post Middle School bathroom in Kaplan

Mon, 09/19/2022 - 11:46am

KAPLAN - In less than a week, there was another bomb scare at a Vermilion Parish school.
At around 9 a.m. on Monday, a bomb threat note was located in a Rene Rost Middle School restroom.
Students, staff, and faculty were moved off campus while law enforcement searched the campus with three bomb-smelling dogs furnished by the Erath Police Department and La. K-9.
The dogs located no bomb.
By 11 a m. the students and faculty were brought back to the middle school, where school continued.

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On Wednesday, the Erath Police were in the high school searching for a bomb.

Erath student allegedly confesses to writing bomb threat note

Thu, 09/15/2022 - 10:52am

An Erath High student allegedly confessed to the Erath High administration for writing the bomb threat note on the wall in the Erath High gymnasium bathroom.
The student’s name has not been released, and as of 10:50 a.m., it is unknown if charges were filed against the student.
The bomb threat happened Wednesday morning after a student walked into the boy’s bathroom in the gym and saw writing on the wall.
The note allegedly said, “F...this school, I want to blow it up.”
The student reported the note to the Erath administration.

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Lance Broussard of La. K-9 gets ready to enter the Erath Middle School with a bomb-smelling dog.

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An Erath Police car blocks off a road while students climb on buses after being dismissed.

Bomb threat note found on wall in Erath boy’s restroom in gymnasium

Wed, 09/14/2022 - 4:36pm

ERATH - On Wednesday morning, someone wrote a note on the boy’s restroom wall in the Erath High gymnasium that allegedly said, “F...this school, I want to blow it up.”
A student saw the note when he went to the restroom and reported it to the Erath High administration.
The EHS administration quickly investigated the note, determined it was a threat and announced a school evacuation over the intercom.
Over the next two hours, the high school and middle school were evacuated and searched by bomb-smelling dogs.
No bomb was located.

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