In a collaborative effort over a two-week period, the Central Louisiana Violent Crime Abatement Team made just under 200 arrests after a very successful detail. Master Trooper Casey Wallace said several law enforcement agencies worked together to identify and apprehend a number of criminals.
“It ended up being about 171 physical arrests, over 278 different charges, 31 guns seized, four or five search warrants were done as a byproduct of the arrests,” said Wallace.
Wallace said due to the increase in violent crime 19 different law enforcement agencies in the central part of the state sat down and shared information and they were able to devise a plan to apprehend as many violent offenders as possible.
“And everybody got together, and they just concentrated on just the most violent criminal things that we would find, guns, dope, anything that they could put their hands on they went out there and did,” said Wallace.
And since the mass arrests, Wallace said they are already seeing a positive impact in the area. Wallace said hospitals and ambulances in central Louisiana have reported a notable decrease in weekly drug overdoses.
“Our dope distribution in the area, it looks like it went down tremendously going from an average of six overdoses a week down to one,” said Wallace.
The operation also seized a number of illegal drugs including methamphetamine, PCP, ecstasy, fentanyl, and more than five thousand dollars in drug-related currency.
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