West Feliciana deputies seize cache of marijuana
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West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputies and Louisiana State Penitentiary officers arrested two people and seized nearly 20 pounds of marijuana during vehicle and foot chases Sunday night.
Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said his narcotics officers and their counterparts in Concordia Parish believe an attempt by Deputy Ellis Diaz to stop a Lincoln Continental on U.S. 61 about 9 p.m. interrupted “a main narcotics run between Houston, Texas, and central Louisiana.”
The sheriff said the 19.6 pounds of marijuana, found in an ice chest near where two people abandoned the Lincoln after fleeing from Diaz, is a record seizure for his eight-year administration.
The marijuana would have a street value between $9,800 and $10,000, he said.
As Diaz began trying to stop the Lincoln, a Cadillac roared up from behind and got between them, with the vehicles pulling off U.S. 61 and driving around the circular drive at West Feliciana Middle School before heading north at a high rate of speed, Daniel said.
Diaz pursued the Cadillac but lost sight of it after it entered Wilkinson County, Miss., Daniel said, while another deputy following the Lincoln saw two people get out of it and run into the woods in the Laurel Hill area.
The Angola team later found Thomasina Washington, 21, 123 Concordia Park, Vidalia, and Carlos Lewis, 22, 2901 Elmside St., Houston, in the woods.
They were booked with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, Daniel said.
Officers stopped the Cadillac in Woodville, Miss., but the driver had not been booked Monday pending further investigation, the sheriff said.
During the ground search in the area of the four schools in Bains, deputies arrested a St. Louis man in a stolen vehicle an Angola prison chase team found hidden among bushes on an abandoned section of Bains Road, Daniel said.
He said Kenneth Awe, 40, had a gorilla mask and a BB or pellet pistol in a Jeep SUV reported stolen in Virginia and also is wanted in Virginia on seven felony charges.
Awe apparently had no connection to the drug suspects, the sheriff added.
An investigation also is continuing to determine if another person was in the Cadillac but got out near the middle school before the vehicle left the area.
Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said his narcotics officers and their counterparts in Concordia Parish believe an attempt by Deputy Ellis Diaz to stop a Lincoln Continental on U.S. 61 about 9 p.m. interrupted “a main narcotics run between Houston, Texas, and central Louisiana.”
The sheriff said the 19.6 pounds of marijuana, found in an ice chest near where two people abandoned the Lincoln after fleeing from Diaz, is a record seizure for his eight-year administration.
The marijuana would have a street value between $9,800 and $10,000, he said.
As Diaz began trying to stop the Lincoln, a Cadillac roared up from behind and got between them, with the vehicles pulling off U.S. 61 and driving around the circular drive at West Feliciana Middle School before heading north at a high rate of speed, Daniel said.
Diaz pursued the Cadillac but lost sight of it after it entered Wilkinson County, Miss., Daniel said, while another deputy following the Lincoln saw two people get out of it and run into the woods in the Laurel Hill area.
The Angola team later found Thomasina Washington, 21, 123 Concordia Park, Vidalia, and Carlos Lewis, 22, 2901 Elmside St., Houston, in the woods.
They were booked with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, Daniel said.
Officers stopped the Cadillac in Woodville, Miss., but the driver had not been booked Monday pending further investigation, the sheriff said.
During the ground search in the area of the four schools in Bains, deputies arrested a St. Louis man in a stolen vehicle an Angola prison chase team found hidden among bushes on an abandoned section of Bains Road, Daniel said.
He said Kenneth Awe, 40, had a gorilla mask and a BB or pellet pistol in a Jeep SUV reported stolen in Virginia and also is wanted in Virginia on seven felony charges.
Awe apparently had no connection to the drug suspects, the sheriff added.
An investigation also is continuing to determine if another person was in the Cadillac but got out near the middle school before the vehicle left the area.
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