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MAURICE — James Trevor Voorhies of Youngsville showed he was not the most careful criminal in South Louisiana.
Last week, Voorhies was seen on video allegedly taking a purse from the back of a chair at City Bar in Maurice.
A camera behind the bar shows a man who looks like Voorhies sitting at the bar, with the purse hanging from the same chair. He orders a drink, finishes it, and pays with a credit card under the name James Trevor Voorhies.
The video shows what seems to be Voorhies taking the purse and hiding it under his shirt, near his stomach.

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office has received information from a local bank who has recently noticed an increase in sophisticated scams targeting the community.
In these recent scams, scammers are using fake emails, texts, and phone calls to pose as banks, utilities, government agencies, and other trusted organizations in an attempt to steal personal or financial information.

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU AgCenter researchers have confirmed the presence of a new invasive insect in Louisiana sugarcane fields. The pasture mealybug was detected in Vermilion and Iberia parishes late last year, raising concerns among growers, ranchers and researchers.
Blake Wilson, AgCenter entomologist, said the insect was observed by crop consultants Nick Daigle and Ryan Viator, who noticed a yellowing canopy in commercial sugarcane fields. AgCenter researchers collected specimens from the Vermilion Parish fields.