Crime briefs and arrests published Feb. 28
Published 4:55 pm Wednesday, February 28, 2018
DNA analysis leads to burglary arrest
Beauregard Parish authorities on Tuesday arrested a 46-year-old man after DNA analysis placed him at the scene of a Dec. 27 daytime burglary, officials said.
Christopher C. Kemp was charged with burglary. Bond was set at $30,000. Mark Herford, Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office chief detective, said a search of Kemp’s residence turned up stolen property.
Five other daytime burglaries occurred across Beauregard Parish near the Christmas holiday, but Herford said no evidence links them to Kemp.
Traffic stop on I-10 ends in drug bust
A Pensacola, Fla., man was arrested last week after 10 bundles of cocaine were found in his vehicle during a traffic stop, authorities said.
The drugs, which weighed about 12 pounds, are worth about $157,000, authorities said.
Kavin Dwayne Grandison, who was driving a 2006 Kia passenger car, was stopped at about 10:45 a.m. Feb. 22 on Interstate 10 East near Sulphur, said Lake Charles Police Chief Deputy Mark Kraus.
Officers grew suspicious, Kraus said, but Grandison declined to give them permission to search the car.
He said a police dog indicated the vehicle contained drugs, giving authorities probable cause to search it. Kraus said the officers, with the parish narcotics task force, found the drugs in the gas tank.
Grandison was charged with possessing over 400 grams of cocaine.
The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office reported the following arrests:
Megan Nicole Carlin, 21, 319 Pitre St., Sulphur — drug possession. Bond: $7,000.
Anthony Cornell Allen, 31, Rosenburg, Texas — drug possession, contempt of court. Bond: $15,000.
Nathaniel David Laughlin, 20, 1423 U.S. 171 North — monetary instrument abuse, contempt of court, drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer by refusal to ID. Bond: $6,500.
John Clayton West, 47, 367 La. 108 East, Sulphur — battery of a dating partner.
Darrien Charles Guillory, 19, 941 Louisa Drive, Sulphur — simple battery. Bond: $5,000.
Trabari Marquise Bradley, 23, 31619 Texas St., 198J — domestic abuse battery child endangerment.
Dale Matthew Prudhomme, 61, 920 W. Burton St., No. 14, Sulphur — drug paraphernalia, two counts of drug possession, letting a disorderly place. Bond: $12,500.
Larry Blaine Spharler, 49, 812 Topsy Road — three counts of bank fraud.
Edwin Eugene Jones, 28, 231 W. Brimstone St., Sulphur — domestic abuse battery child endangerment. Bond: $5,000.
Joseph Wayne Treadway, 28, 2499 Sam Houston Jones Parkway, No. 11 — domestic abuse battery child endangerment.
Micqueta Michelle Obera, 28, Redlands, Calif. — possession of stolen things $1,000-$5,000, identity theft, production of a fraudulent document. Bond: $60,000.
