Lafayette Police say 21-year-old Nikita Valdmire Eremine went into the bank on December 3rd and allegedly reached over the counter and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from where the teller was counting money.
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — A suspect in last week's robbery at Home Bank in Scott has been arrested.
Scott Police Chief Chad Leger said officers recovered all but $2,000 of the $14,000 taken in the heist.
Leger tells The Advertiser Charles Fontenot was arrested Friday night at his Opelousas home after police there received an anonymous tip about the robber...
Authorities say a man who took three people hostage at a rural Louisiana bank has released a female bank teller and that negotiations are continuing to secure the release of the other two, a man and a woman.
Police says that 31-year-old Justin Reed Seawright was found by authorities last week at a motel in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and he was brought back to Lafayette early Monday.