Police, deputies make arrests on cocaine, meth, fentanyl charges

(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 reported four arrests on charges related to drugs, including possession of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Assumption authorities also reported the arrest of a Morgan City man wanted as a parole violator.

Morgan City
Police Chief James F. Blair reported that the Morgan City Police Department responded to 39 calls for service over the last 24-hour reporting period, and made these arrests beginning Thursday.
—Joseph Butler James, 40, Iberia Street, Franklin, was arrested at 7:58 p.m. Thursday on charges of possession of methamphetamine, possession of fentanyl, possession of amphetamine, possession of buprenorphine, possession of alprazolam, flight from an officer, driving under suspension and improper turning.
—Frederick Calloway, 18, Susan Drive, Morgan City was arrested at 1:35 a.m. Friday on warrants alleging simple burglary, theft of a firearm and theft ($5,000-$25,000).
—Jim James Businelle, 62, Carol Road, Morgan City, was arrested at 3:37 a.m. Friday on charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia, and on a 16th Judicial District Court warrant alleging failure to appear for revocation.

St. Mary
Sheriff Blaise Smith ad-vised that over the last 24-hour reporting period, the Sheriff’s Office responded to 29 complaints and made these arrests:
—Rodnajae R. Nerve, 18, Patterson, was arrested at 10:31 a.m. Thursday on a charge of disturbing the peace (fighting). Nerve was released on a summons to appear April 21.
—Juvenile female, 15, Patterson, was arrested at 10:31 a.m. Thursday on a charge of disturbing the peace (fighting). The juvenile female was released into the custody of a guardian pending juvenile court proceedings.
—Jeremy Lee Housely, 39, Charenton, was arrested, at 2:33 p.m. Thursday on charges of theft, criminal trespass and resisting an officer by giving false information. Housely was also named in two warrants alleging failure to appear on charges of possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, improper turn or failure to give required signal, possession of methamphetamine, and obstruction of justice (tampering).
—Fredrick Fournet, 33, Franklin, was arrested at 10:28 a.m. Thursday by the Narcotics Section on a warrant alleging cultivation of marijuana, possession of Schedule I drugs, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, illegal possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance.

Assumption
Sheriff Leland Falcon reported this arrest:
—Benjamin Roosevelt Cheramie, 51, Tower Tank Road, Morgan City, was arrested Wednesday for failure to appear on charges of, resisting an officer, no driver’s license on person, and turning movements and signals and required. He was also arrested on a parole hold for the Department of Corrections.
On Oct. 27, Cheramie failed to appear for court in Assumption Parish resulting in an arrest warrant being issued.
The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office learned that Cheramie was being held on unrelated charges at the Morgan City Jail.
On Wednesday, Assumption Parish sheriff’s deputies took Cheramie into custody in Morgan City. Cheramie was booked into the Assumption Parish Detention Center and remains incarcerated pending bond proceedings.