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.
Police say the suspect held up the victim, forced her into her car, and told her to drive away. She fought back, though, and was able to yell for help.
Deputy Chief Varden Guillory with the Eunice Police Department said the husband was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint, while the couple's children were locked away in a room and the wife was sexually assaulted.