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Warrant searches net suspected drug dealers
Four suspected heroin and cocaine dealers were jailed Tuesday and five more are being hunted by the Terrebonne Narcotics Task Force.
Agents encountered Elvin Mills, 29, who was armed with a pistol, Terrebonne sheriff’s spokesman Maj. Malcolm Wolfe said, as they executed a search warrant at the residence at 208 Academy St. in Houma.
Ryan Austin, 32, was armed with an FN semi-automatic pistol loaded with Teflon-coated rounds, which he tossed out the back window. He also tried to discard a travel bag filled with heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, liquid codeine and pills, Wolfe said.
Search warrants were executed at two additional addresses – 801 Lafayette and 800 Grinage streets – after a covert investigation and a series of other arrest warrants for heroin and meth distribution.
The four people arrested are:
• Austin, of 801 Lafayette St., who was charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, liquid codeine, methamphetamine, oxycodone, alprazolam and Soma, as well as manufacturing meth for distribution, possession of a firearm while in possession of a CDS, obstruction of justice and proceeds derived from drug transactions.
• Mills, of 208 Academy St., charged with possession with intend to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, liquid cocaine, meth, Oxycodine, Alprazolam, Soma, manufacturing meth for distribution, possession of a firearm while in possession of a CDS, obstruction of justice and proceeds derived from drug transactions.
• Shaun Austin, 45, of 404 Mike St., charged with distribution of CDS Schedule 1, heroin.
• Ryaneshia Austin, 32, of 801 Lafayette St., charged with distribution of CDS Schedule 1, heroin.
Suspects still at large are:
• Chance Franklin, 37, with distribution of heroin.
• Damari Franklin, 27, distribution of meth.
• Zena Austin, 33, distribution of heroin.
• Guillian Austin, 37, distribution of heroin.
• Que Austin, 25, distribution of heroin.
Employee confesses to business burglary
A Schriever man admitted to stealing a cash box and airsoft gun from the Thibodaux business where he worked, but not before first staging a break-in and reporting the apparent burglary.
Lafourche sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Brennan Matherne said Shawn Gaudet, 36, of Schriever, initially told deputies the business in the 2200 block of St. Mary Street had been burglarized.
Other evidence, however, suggested Gaudet was the prime suspect, Matherne said. During questioning, the Schriever man confessed to the late December burglary.
Gaudet was charged with filing a false public record and simple burglary. He was also booked on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court for a traffic violation. Bond was set at $26,100.
Burglary plan foiled by concerned neighbor
Think neighbors don’t watch out for neighbors anymore? Ask Demory Walcott.
Thibodaux Police spokesman David Melancon said Walcott, 17, of 1304 Eagle Drive in Thibodaux, was trying to break into a home in the 100 block of Notre Dame last Tuesday around 1:30 p.m. An alert neighbor, who knew the homeowners were gone, received a call that a suspicious person was on the property.
Walcott fled before police arrived, but officers found him walking in the 600 block of Government Circle.
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