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It takes only about five minutes to steal a converter from a car.

Abbeville Police warn about catalytic converters being stolen off vehicles

Thu, 07/15/2021 - 4:28pm

If one morning when you start your vehicle and it sounds like your vehicle no longer has a muffler and it runs rough, the odds are someone stole your catalytic converter from under your vehicle.
The Abbeville Police Department sent out a public notice informing Abbeville citizens to be aware of catalytic converter thefts in different parts of Abbeville.

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Sheriff's Office names person thrown from car with gunshots; juvenile arrested for alleged crime

Tue, 06/29/2021 - 8:55am

The name of the person thrown from a car with gunshots has been identified by the Sheriff’s Office and a person of interest has been arrested for the alleged crime.
According to the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Public Information Officer, Eddie Langlinais, during the morning hours of Monday, June 28, 2021, Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a person thrown out of a vehicle off of Queen’s Ranch Road south of Abbeville.

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Body with gunshots thrown out of car south of Abbeville; person dies en route to hospital

Mon, 06/28/2021 - 9:46am

According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office’s Public Information Officer Eddie Langlinais, during the morning hours of Monday, Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a person thrown out of a vehicle in a rural area south of Abbeville.
Upon arrival, deputies discovered the victim at this location had received multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was being transported to the hospital when the victim succumbed to his injuries prior to arrival.

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Marcus Duhon tells family and friends that the body found was Cleveland Duhon.

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Family members hug after the tragic news.

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Law enforcement were on scene not long after the body was located.

Maurice man's body found 1,200 feet away from car crash

Thu, 05/20/2021 - 1:04pm

MAURICE - Family and friends of 45-year-old Cleveland Duhon received word that a body had been found in a drainage canal about four football fields away from where Cleveland Duhon’s car plunged into a coulee off Etienne Street in Maurice.
They got word about 9:30 Thursday morning and it did not take them long to gather in the neighborhood of Prairie Cove Subdivision, located south of where Duhon’s car wrecked.

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