According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, the Vermillion Parish Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit made the follow arrests for narcotics related offenses within the parish.
Two people have been booked into jail after police say they were caught with crack cocaine. Agents with the Vermillion Municipal Task Force say they received complaints that a car parked on private property was selling drugs.
High levels of saltwater intrusion are causing the Vermillion Parish Police Jury to declare a state of emergency. Back in October, a barge slammed into a flow control structure designed to prevent such intrusion into the Mermentau Basin.
Emergency personnel in Vermillion Parish will soon have new communications equipment thanks to a federal grant. The 73-point-5 thousand dollar grant from FEMA was approved by the Vermillion Parish Police Jury.
Vermillion Parish authorities and State Police say they uncovered a meth lab at a home along Highway 82 -- while the occupants were in the process of making and smoking it.