A Jeanerette man, 51-year-old Roy Verret has been arrested in connection with an ongoing murder investigation.

Howard Poche was murdered in December 2016, and Iberia investigators says that Verret is their suspect in this case.

Verret was arrested in Houma by officials with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office after there was a warrant for him out of Iberia Parish.

Verret is now sitting is the Iberia Parish Jail as the Sheriff's Spokesman Major Wendell Raborn says no bond has been set yet for Verret.

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