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According to Sheriff Eddie Langlinais, in the early afternoon hours of August 22, 2024, the Vermilion Parish Sheriff’s Office received a request to assist the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, in reference to a wanted subject, Demarkus Johnson.
Johnson, 31, was wanted by the United States Marshals Service and the Lafayette Police Department on the charge of Armed Robbery.

ST. MARTIN, La. - DeQuincy Lewis of Abbeville has been found guilty on the charge of first-degree murder for the death of Justin Primeaux.
On April 20, 2019, two masked men broke into Primeaux’s home in Cade, and he was shot twice.
Primeaux later died of his wounds.
Lewis was a suspect in the home invasion and homicide. He was indicted for first-degree murder in connection with the death of Primeaux. After a four-day trial, a St. Martin Parish jury unanimously found Lewis guilty as charged.

The North Vermilion High community is mourning the loss of one of its own. A woman who graduated from North Vermilion High School in 2015 and worked for the Baton Rouge mayor was killed in a car crash in Baton Rouge on Sunday.
According to The Advocate newspaper, 26-year-old Simone Pillette was driving a 2014 Lincoln MKZ on Interstate 12 eastbound around 1 a.m. on Sunday when the front driver’s side tire collided with the rear tire of a 2018 Jeep Wrangler. As a result, she veered off the road, struck a tree, and her car was engulfed in flames.