Deputy Caught Trespassing... Yet Again... - April 30, 2024

In the late evening of April 30th, 2024, a sheriff's deputy in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana was dispatched to a suspicious vehicle call. Complainant who wasn't home, was advised by a neighbor that a pickup truck had been parked in her driveway for approximately 30 minutes, the driver of which was possibly fishing in her private pond, and she wanted a deputy to check it out. The vehicle's license plate returned to a fellow deputy - whose name the dispatcher either accidentally misread, or intentionally misstated in an effort to keep it off the air and therefore cover up the crime. They determined it was likely that deputy's son - but I think it could have just as easily been the deputy himself.

That deputy happens to be the same one who was caught earlier in the month walking through a woman's yard and shining a flashlight through her windows, and a few months prior was also caught acting suspicious near another woman's house and mailbox in a different area of the parish. If it was him this time, that makes twice in less than a month - and three times in 5 months - that he was caught and reported acting suspicious on other peoples' properties. If it was instead his son, I guess the apple didn't fall far from the tree.

Apparently the deputy was contacted by phone (or may have been listening to his department-issued radio) and either decided to leave (if it was him) or contacted his son and advised him to leave (if it was his son). Either way, the suspect vehicle was leaving as the responding deputy arrived, no traffic stop or investigation was conducted (imagine that...) and no action was taken. Contrast with how it would've been handled had it not been a fellow LEO (or his son), the vehicle would've been stopped and likely searched, the occupant(s) would've been questioned and warned to not return or they would be arrested for trespassing.

It must be nice to be #abovethelaw .