Kaplan News

Durel Romaine started harvesting crawfish in December, and so far the catch has been dismal.

Durel Romaine started harvesting crawfish in December, and so far the catch has been dismal.

Kaplan - State Fire Marshal H. "Butch" Browning and Kaplan Chief of Police Boyd Adams announced Tuesday the early morning arrest of a man charged with being responsible for setting 12 fires over the past two years including a fire at the vacant Kaplan Rice Mill.

According to Sheriff Mike Couvillon, Chief Tony Hardy and Chief Boyd Adams the Vermilion / Municipal Narcotics Task Force recently conducted two undercover operations that netted the arrests of three people.

KAPLAN, La. - State Fire Marshal H. "Butch" Browning and Kaplan Chief of Police Boyd Adams announce the early morning arrest of a man charged with being responsible for setting 12 fires over the past two years including a fire at the vacant Kaplan Rice Mill.

A Kaplan man was recently booked into the Vermilion Parish jail on 12 counts of sexual battery on a juvenile.

An official with the Sunset Library called the Sunset Police Department on Dec. 10 after Hailey Schramm, 31, of 118 Timber Trail in Sunset, made a comment that she was having suicidal thoughts, according to a news release.