OPELOUSAS, La. — It took nearly a year, a SWAT team, and a robot, but St. Landry Parish detectives got their man Thursday — two of them, actually.
Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz announced the arrests of Bryson Obrian Mallet, 25, and Phillip Paul Kennerson, 21, both of Opelousas, following a narcotics investigation centered on a residence at 101 Zinfandel Drive.
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A Tip That Took a Year to Pay Off
The case started with a call to Crime Stoppers about steady foot traffic at the Zinfandel Drive address. Vehicles would pull up, stay briefly, then leave — a familiar pattern to narcotics investigators.
“While many of the Crime Stopper tips we receive can yield fairly rapid results, this is a case that took nearly a year to develop,” Sheriff Guidroz said in a Thursday press release.
Surveillance eventually turned up what detectives needed: one of the subjects outside the home, in possession of illegal narcotics.
One Detained, One Hid Under the House
Deputies detained Mallet outside while detectives worked to secure a search warrant for the property. That’s when Kennerson ran inside…