Bayou L'Ourse residents face kidnapping charges

Two Bayou L'Ourse residents face kidnapping charges after leaving the area with a 6-year-old child who was the subject of a custody judgment, Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon said.

Arrested were:

---Chadwick M. Landry, 50, 1043 Highway 662, Bayou L’Ourse on a fugitive warrant alleging simple kidnapping.

--Candice Nicole Norman, 33, 1043 Highway 662, Bayou L’Ourse, on a fugitive warrant alleging simple kidnapping.

According to arrest warrants and affidavits filed by the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office, Candice Norman had previously entered into a stipulated judgment awarding full custody of her 6-year-old child to a former companion.

On Saturday, Landry and Norman traveled to S Franklin and physically removed the 6-year-old child in question and left the area, Falcon said.

The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office initiated an investigation and subsequently filed arrest warrants against Landry and Norman.

Both Landry and Norman were arrested in Bayou L’Ourse on Saturday and booked into the Assumption Parish Detention Center and were awaiting transport to St. Mary Parish.