May 15, 2012 - Graduation ceremonies for students in the sheriff’s Drug Awareness Resistance Education program, or D.A.R.E., were held recently at Lynn Oaks School and Willie Smith Elementary.

Seven 5th-graders were in the program at Lynn Oaks and about 60 at Willie Smith. Lt. Lisa Jackson, head of the D.A.R.E. program, and Sgt. Darrin Miller are the instructors. Shown from Willie Smith are the essay winners, seated from left and wearing their medals: Ataia Williams, Fallon Mulholland, Teandranae Alveris and Treasure Carr and in back are Jackson, Miller, Sheriff’s Maj. Mark Poche, Cpl. Jessica Garnados of the Narcotics Unit and Principal Dedra M. Bailey.

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May 14, 2012 - Here’s a simple and cheap idea that could persuade a burglar not to mess with your home: Put a big, dog’s water bowl at your back door or near the driveway at the front. Keep it half-full and occasionally wash it out so algae doesn’t grow.

And you don’t even have to own a dog. But it will give the impression a big canine is inside.

May 13, 2012 - Arrests have been made in four recent St. Bernard Parish burglaries and one of the people is a suspect in several other break-ins and thefts, Sheriff-elect James Pohlmann said.

In two of the solved cases victims were home when the burglaries took place. In one instance a Violet resident who was in a bedroom reported a shot fired through a wall after the home was broken into and said he saw a man he knew and had been arguing with recently run away, Pohlmann said.

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May 08, 2012 - A man wanted in Jefferson Parish for an April 22 carjacking was arrested in eastern St. Bernard Parish on Monday, May 7, where he was staying with friends, Sheriff-elect James Pohlmann and Jefferson Parish authorities said.

Frederick Huguet, 26, who had been living in LaPlace but is a native of St. Bernard, was arrested at a trailer residence on Gnell Drive in St. Bernard, following a tip made to Crimestoppers.

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