Local agencies report eight arrests

(Editor’s note: The charges listed here and the narratives that go with them are provided by the police agencies that made the arrests. Guilt or innocence has not been determined in court.)

Morgan City police and St. Mary deputies made eight arrests Thursday and early Friday, including one on a charge of cocaine possession.

Morgan City
Police Chief James F. Blair reported that the Morgan City Police Department responded to 24 calls for service over the last 24-hour reporting period and made these arrests:
—Lionel A. Duncan, 32, Martin Luther King Boulevard, Thibodaux, was arrested at 9:19 p.m. Thursday on charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, transactions involving proceeds from controlled dangerous substance activity, failure to register vehicle, improper lane usage, improper display of a license plate and improper turning.
—Tyrone Fitzgerald Thomas, 57, Sixth Street, Morgan City, was arrested at 3:40 p.m. Thursday on a St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office warrant alleging two counts of failure to register as a sex offender.
—Christian Knight, 31, Railroad Avenue, Morgan City, was arrested at 4:34 p.m. Thursday on a warrant alleging battery on a dating partner.
—Jonathan Hernandez Parker, 39, Michigan Street, Baytown, Texas, was arrested at 4:40 a.m. Friday on charges of aggravated flight from an officer, improper lane usage, driving under suspension and aggravated obstruction of a highway; on 16th Judicial District Court warrants alleging failure to appear for executory sentence and failure to appear for arraignment; on a 6th Ward City Court warrant alleging four counts of failure to appear to pay fine; and as a fugitive from the Harris County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office.
St Mary
Sheriff Blaise Smith advised that over the last 24-hour reporting period, the Sheriff’s Office responded to 34 complaints and made these arrests:
—Juvenile male, 16, Patterson, was arrested at 11:45 p.m. Thursday on a charge of disturbing the peace (fighting). The juvenile male was released into the custody of a guardian pending juvenile court proceedings.
—Marvin Diaz, 27, Morgan City was arrested at 7:16 a.m. Thursday on a charge hit and run. Diaz was re-leased on a summons to appear May 10.
—Kobe Gray, 23, Patterson, was arrested at 1:55 p.m. Thursday on two warrants alleging failure to appear on charges of possession of marijuana, resist4ing an officer, improper lane usage and failure to honor a written promise to appear.
Bail was set at $5,000.
—Juan Rivera-Gonzalez, 37, Franklin, was arrested at 9:52 p.m. Thursday on charges of no taillights and driving under suspension. Gonzalez was released on a summons to appear May 10.