Exciting evening......NOT!
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Exciting evening......NOT!
DH and I are joining a gym. We went last night for orientation and have one week free to see if we like it. We were to start working out tonight right after work. We got home, changed clothes, and Jen was here, and was leaving a few minutes before we were going to leave.
Just after she left, she called me, all freaked out, and told me the street was blocked off and there were SWAT team guys all over and the cops were yelling at her and waving her on, and off the street. Then a minute later she calls me back to tell me she'd seen a *tank* (which was an armored personnel vehicle) heading towards our subdivision on the levee, with 3 police cars following.
At this point, we are all dying to know what's happening, so DH and I go outside, and cops have several cars blocking the street off, one right in front of our house. I asked the cop if we'd be able to leave by going the other way and exiting out the back side of the subdivision, and he said *in a while*. Then I notice 2 of my neighbors being made to leave their houses, and a SWAT team guy at another's house, and I hear him telling her to bring her dog inside.
The cop in front of my house is yelling to some kids riding bikes in the street to *get out of the street*, *get out of the area*. So I asked him what was going on. He said someone had robbed a bank in Mississippi. I asked him if they thought he was in the area and he told me they KNEW he was. I said *On MY street?!?* And he said No, on ******** Dr., which is right behind us.
Next we start hearing the bullhorns, calling him by name, telling him the house is surrounded, give himself up voluntarily, yada yada yada. This goes on for a while, then it's silent. I'm thinking I could get pics, maybe get one in the paper, so I go stand and look over the back fence and come eye to eye with two SWAT team guys, so I jumped back down and decided to blow off that idea.
A school bus is trying to get into the subdivision to drop off the kids who had after school activities at the schools, and of course, they aren't allowed down the street, and instead a cop takes them into the convenience store. At this point no traffic is being allowed in or out.
So this goes on for a couple of hours, then suddenly, we see several of the SWAT team and the cop with the search dog come running from the yard along one of my neighbor's houses, and run down the street towards the River Road. After a bit, the police cars blocking the street leave and we all assume the guy got away or something.
Jen calls just now to tell me she's at her friend's house, whose stepdad is a cop that I know, and they didn't catch the guy, he's in the area, and everyone's being told to take extra precaution with doors and windows, etc. Needless to say, we didn't go work out tonight. :-(
This kind of excitement, I can definitely do without.
Yikes Karen!! Be careful! As you know, crime in New Orleans is out of control and spreading into the neighboring parishes. Christmas time is even worse for crime, so stay extra alert and safe.
OHMYGOODNESS!!! You cracked me up with the whole "seeing eye to eye with the SWAT guys and forgetting that idea"...ha ha ha.
Keep us up to date! I bet that got your heart rate up anyway, huh? MAN!
I am so glad that I live in a small community where not much happens.
Keep safe!
eeesh! Be careful!
Oh man, that's a little more than scary!! I must admit, I was LOL at the whole camera thing, too. Laughing because I would have done the same thing!! 
Be careful!
Yikes! Be careful. I wouldn't want something like that to be going on. What if my dog needed to go out!
Oh my word! News at 11! Let us know how it turns out.
Wow that is scary! We had a man hunt about four or five miles from my house a few years ago. But I knew people that lived right in the area where they were searching. They were searching for a man that had killed his wife and daughter. It was several acres of wooded land with several caves on the land. It took a couple of weeks before they caught the man. A couple of teenagers spotted him walking through a field and told the police. Luckily, the police made an arrest without incident because they knew he was armed.
Needless to say, we were all frighten here, so you can imagine how frighten the people closer to the are were! Everyone was warned to keep their doors and windows and vehicles locked and not to go out at night.
I hope they catch that guy soon!
How scary! You'll have to let us know if you slept at all last night.
I woke up a few times. Once, I thought I heard something in the house and I freaked out, but it was just Kali's claws on the floors. LOL I was just getting up when DH left for work around 6 this morning and I told him to be sure to lock the deadbolt on the door behind him. I haven't seen anything on the news so far.
Oh my!! That is scary...I hope they catch the guy.
LOL, on the pics too.. We were on a school trip last year and had a lockdown in one of the barns due to a bank robber being in the park.I was so scared.It was hard to pretend everything was ok for the kids sake.I explained to Katie when we got home what happened.I hope they catch him soon so you don't have to wonder where he is.
The get him yet???
Wow, quiet a story. And the news on him so far?
I was laughing at the photo op w/ SWAT too.
Holy Cow!! What an evening!!! You were lucky that the SWAT guys didn't react and shoot you when you looked over the fence! Keep us posted on what happens.
We live in a VERY rural area with farms around us. There is a farmer at the very beginning of our road and he is a tough old guy. They're good people but don't take any crap from anybody. Where they live is the only way into our road from the main road. The other end of our road becomes dirt a half mile from us and continues on through a Nature Conservancy forest for three miles. The dirt part of the road is only passable by one car at a time.
Many years ago, we were coming home and the entrance to our road was all blocked off. Same thing...local and state police EVERYWHERE!! An ambulance standing by. Other residents pulled off to the side of the road because they couldn't get up the road either. Our volunteer fire department sometimes accompanies the police to help divert traffic. We asked one what was going on. It seemed that a convict (a murderer) had escaped from the state prison forty miles north of us, had hitchhiked on the interstate, and gotten off at OUR exit!! He walked to the Stedman place and hid in their barn. I suppose he figured that if he could get down in the country that he could hide. WRONG!! Mr. Stedman walked into his barn, saw the guy, and immediately grabbed a shotgun that he had and held it on the guy and threatened to blow his brains out! He yelled to his wife to call the police. He held that guy off until the police came. I think that the police were afraid that HE would shoot the convict before they could get in there. These old Yankee farmers don't take kindly to intruders.
The police got him and returned him to prison. He won't be getting out for a long time now. I guess no matter where we live, things can happen. Yikes!!
Why do you guys think it's funny I was trying to get pics? You KNOW I love photo ops! LOL
Actually, I felt like an idiot when I climbed up and was staring down at 2 SWAT members. But I *really* was hoping to get some pics, and maybe get one in the paper. :-(
ROFLMAO!!!!,Karen. The mental picture is just killing me with laughter LOL
Karen, these guys are running around with armor and guns and you're trying to take pictures LOL
But yes, i would have wanted to do the same thing.
I hope this ends and they catch the guy so you can breath a sigh or relieft! That's scary!! I mean, a TANK? Geez!
OK...........I guess the picture thing IS kind of funny, now that I've thought about it. DH was the one pushing me to get pics. I was too afraid to try looking over the fence again, afraid I'd get my head blown off. Believe me, getting one of my photos in the newspaper is SO not worth that! ROFL
They DID get him.
Deputies arrest fugitive in Destrehan
He was sought in Mississippi bank heist
Saturday, December 16, 2006
By Matt Scallan
St. Charles Parish Sheriff's deputies blocked off some Destrehan streets and ordered some residents to leave their homes Thursday night as they closed in on a fugitive accused of robbing a Mississippi bank.
Another man being sought in connection with the bank robbery is believed to have fled the area before the raid.
Warren C. Williams, *** ******* Drive, Destrehan, did not offer resistance as the deputies arrested him about 6:20 p.m. Williams is accused of being one of at least three men with assault weapons who robbed the Trustmark National Bank in Gloster, Miss., on Tuesday about 2:30 p.m. Gloster is about 120 miles from Destrehan, in Amite County, Miss., which borders St. Helena Parish.
The warning that the men were heavily armed led the department to block traffic on ******** (my street) and ******* Drive before making the arrest.
"We certainly apologize for any inconvenience caused to nearby residents, but believe that removing such a potentially dangerous individual from our neighborhoods justified this action," Sheriff Greg Champagne said in an e-mail to residents. Guess he didn't have my email addy. LOL
Tim Wroten, chief deputy of the Amite County Sheriff's Office, which is assisting the Gloster Police Department in the investigation, praised the St. Charles Sheriff's Office's Strategic Response Team, which carried out the arrest. "They were awesome," he said.
Guess Jen's friend's stepdad was wrong!
Wow, so they did catch him on Thursday, already! They are good.
Oh, good. I'm sure everyone there must be relieved. I know I am, and I live on the other side of the the US!
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