Jody Thomas Thrasher, a 47-year-old man who had been on the run since Sunday after escaping from Evangeline Parish Jail, reached out to KLFY News 10 to "tell his side of the story."
Lafayette Police are searching for 15-year-old Jaterrius Brown after he escaped from the Juvenile Detention Center located near the Lafayette Regional Airport earlier Wednesday.
This past Thursday, inmate Deltra Henderson escaped from the David Wade Correctional Center in Claiborne Parish. Henderson eventually broke into the assistant warden's home and murdered his 17-year-old step-daughter, Amanda Leigh Carney.