ABBEVILLE, La. ( KLFY )– Sheriff Mike Couvillon told News 10 there is a major problem with juvenile crime within the parish.
“We had over 200 juvenile cases which run from homicide, armed robbery, sex charges, burglaries, thefts, home invasions, and terrorizing, bomb threats to schools where we had to lock down the schools and send a SWAT team over to clear for what could be something,” Couvillon said. “Vermilion Parish, as long as well as seven other parishes, we’re all working to try to solve this problem because the house arrest and the ankle bracelets are not working.”
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The sheriff said the shooting where a 16-year-old boy is accused of killing a 19-year-old shows that ankle monitors and house arrests do not have much an effect on the the reduction of juvenile crimes.
“Now, this 16-year-old had an ankle bracelet where he left his home and he went and he killed somebody. It’s not working,” he said. “That’s just like when somebody gets a sentence of house arrest when they were dealing drugs out of their house. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.”