State police have booked a 58-year-old West Monroe, La., man with 29 counts of insurance fraud and one count of theft. Trooper Albert Paxton tells The News-Star John Whittington, a licensed insurance agent, allegedly obtained insurance premiums in cash from …
State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning says a 55-year-old Kaplan, La., man is accused of setting a dozen fires, including one that destroyed the vacant Kaplan Rice Mill. Browning and Kaplan Police Chief Boyd Adams say in a news release …
A Natchitoches Parish, La., man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing horse feed, welding equipment and power tools from a farm shed in Pointe Coupee Parish. Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain’s office says 32-year-old Steven Leslie Jones …