Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton says 41-year-old Steven Myers has been released from the hospital and has been booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center for Attempted 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property.
A 16-year-old Florida girl is in a Lafayette hospital in critical condition and suffering from multiple stab wounds after a high speed chase that started in Iberville Parish.
An FBI spokeswoman says she doesn't yet have details about the rescue operation and how it was carried out, a possible abduction motive or whether anyone has been arrested.
Text messages sent to the mother of a girl taken by her father last week, resulting in an Amber Alert, did not meet the legal definition of a threat, according to police.
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Scott W.Thomas or Bethany Arceneaux, the victim, to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.