Opelousas Police arrested 39-year-old Lawrence "Tap" Biagase III on Monday after Biagase was caught driving away from a gas pump with the hose still attached to his car.
This happened in Horizon City, Tx. about 20 miles from El Paso, but unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all over the country every day including here in Acadiana.
James Thompson of Opelousas is wanted by his local police department, and when they find him, he has a slew of charges to face - including catalytic converter theft.
Shots have been ringing out in Acadia Parish recently as deputies and local police departments have been investigating a high volume of gun-related violence in the parish.
Church Point Police have arrested a man accused of stealing from a store. In a separate case, Acadia Sheriff's deputies are looking for whoever burglarized a Rayne home.
A man and his girlfriend are behind bars after the man's elderly mother says the couple would not allow her to leave her bedroom for essential reasons and allegedly threatened to beat her if she did.
The body of 51-year-old Kitty Rideaux was found on Friday behind an abandoned residence in the 500 block of Field Street. In a separate case, New Iberia Police need your help trying to find a woman named Kelly Patrice Boutte.
62-year-old Bobby Vincent of Morse is behind bars after an alleged road rage incident last week turned violent and left another Morse man - 69-year-old Henry Primeaux - dead.
60-year-old Anita Belaire of Opelousas has now been arrested after a raid of her home earlier this year she was allegedly breeding animals to sell online.
41-year-old Robert Allen Moreno of Houston, Texas, is the second suspect arrested after a 17-year-old male was found shot to death earlier in May in Rayne.