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According to Vermilion Parish Sheriff Michael Couvillon, on Jan. 19, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate two separate daytime kick-in residential burglaries that had occurred in two areas of Vermilion Parish.
The Vermilion Parish Criminal Investigations Division continued the investigation and quickly learned that the two incidents were committed by the same subject(s).
Through further investigation detectives were able to identify Rashawn Sterling of Lafayette, as a suspect.
Detectives were able to obtain arrest warrants for Sterling.

The Abbeville Police Department is trying to do its best to keep a finger on former criminals roaming the city streets.
Abbeville Police Chief Mike Hardy has set up an ID Board with mug shots of past criminals. He even has them grouped by who they have hung out with.
“This is very helpful,” said Chief Hardy. “If I see a person walking on the streets of Abbeville and I am curious to see who he is and who he hangs out with, I walk to the ID board and search for him.”
When Chief Hardy finds the person, he also sees who he is affiliated with.

The National Science Foundation’s annual index of research and development spending contains a bevy of good news for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
According to NSF’s 2021 Higher Education Research and Development, or HERD, Survey, UL Lafayette:
• Is, for the second consecutive time, the seventh-best university in the United States for research that’s funded through partnerships with business and industry.