Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators have identified the elderly, denim overall-clad suspect accused of abducting a man from an Elmwood parking lot and stealing his cash.
Eugene Freeman, 78, of Houston, was arrested Wednesday and booked with aggravated kidnapping, said Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the department.
Authorities allege Freeman is the suspect bedecked in blue — wearing denim overalls, blue gloves, a blue jacket and a straw hat with a blue ribbon —in a store security image released last month by Sheriff’s Office investigators seeking to identify the man.
Freeman is accused of approaching the victim, a 63-year-old man, in the parking lot of a home improvement store in the 5100 block of Citrus Boulevard on the morning of May 11 to ask for a ride to a nearby store…