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A $500 iron bench was stolen from the Erath City Park and found in front of Abbeville High School this past Thursday.
The missing bench was reported on the Erath Moving Forward Facebook page with photos of the missing bench and its previous location.
The Erath Police Department also joined the search for the bench.
The next day, the police chief received a phone call from Abbeville High School claiming the bench was in front of the school under oak trees.
The police chief identified the bench and returned it to its original location.

Henri Clay Bienvenu was born in 1941, but his story really begins over half a century earlier, around 1886, with a 12-year-old kid tacking obituary notices to telegraph poles in St. Martinville, notices that he had printed himself on a small hand press in the offices of a brand-new newspaper called the Weekly Messenger.

According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, the Vermilion Municipal and Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force made the following arrest for narcotics related offenses within the parish.
After a lengthy investigation into the sale of illegal narcotics inside the city limits of Abbeville, agents were able to apply for and secure a search warrant for 1108 South Saint Valerie.
Upon execution, with the assistance of the Abbeville Police Department Patrol and Detective Divisions, agents were able to safely detain multiple subjects inside of the residence without incident.