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Dooley was elected sheriff in a special election in 1976 to fill the remainder of the preceding term, [1] [5] and was reelected in 1979 and 1983. [6] In 1984, Dooley and six of his deputies were found liable for injuries incurred by prison inmate Jessie Lee Smith while being transported from the Bossier Parish Jail in Benton to the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office released its 2023 crime stats, and the violent crime rate remained stable for the year. Sheriff Julian C. Whittington attributed the relatively low crime rates to ...
An inmate is dead following a medical emergency while incarcerated at Bossier Maximum-Security Facility in Bossier Parish. Monday morning, Bossier Sheriff Julian Whittington released that on March ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.
A man's body was found in Bossier Parish by a land surveyor on Wednesday. According to Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office, a land surveyor found the body entangled in the brush near a railroad trestle.
William Edward Waggonner (August 7, 1905 – May 9, 1976) was an American sheriff. He served as the sheriff in Bossier Parish, Louisiana from 1948 to 1976. Born in Plain Dealing, Louisiana, the brother of politician Joe Waggonner. [1] [2] Waggonner attended at the Plain Dealing Middle/High School, where he later graduated. [3]
Officers screened 487 vehicles, conducted 21 traffic stops and performed 24 field sobriety tests during the checkpoint.
The sheriff's department plans to train volunteers to defend local resources, such as fuel, from looting that might occur after a disaster. [1] The existence of the ongoing program is anticipated to cost $ 4500 to pay for training and uniforms, as the weapons expected to be used are already owned by the Sheriff's Department.