(Updated) Sheriff: Suspect in chase booked for principal to attempted murder

A Patterson man has been arrested on Jeanerette police charges of principal to attempted murder and principal to armed robbery allegedly in connection with a Thursday incident.

Clarence Woods, 24, of Patterson, was booked Saturday into St. Mary Parish jail on Jeanerette police warrants charging him with principal to aggravated armed robbery with a weapon, principal to attempted first-degree murder, principal to aggravated assault with a firearm and principal to attempted armed robbery with a weapon.

Woods is believed to have been an occupant of a vehicle Thursday that led authorities on a high-speed chase from Jeanerette to Burns Point, said Detective Whytley Jones, St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. Woods’ charges are connected to the chase that began in Jeanerette, Jones said.

On Saturday afternoon, the St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office sent a news release saying that Woods had been reported missing by his family. He was located later that day in the Burns Point area.

Three suspects, who were allegedly in the same vehicle, were caught Thursday at Burns Point after they fled from the vehicle that crashed at Burns Point.

Courtland Fullwood, 30, of Morgan City, Darian Bridget, 23, of Patterson, and Kurwin Webb Jr., 24, of Siracusaville, were the three men arrested.

St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies patrolling the Franklin area assisted with a vehicle pursuit that began in city limits of Franklin. Deputies pursued a vehicle, occupied by multiple individuals that fit the description of a vehicle being sought by the Jeanerette Police Department, Sheriff Scott Anslum said in a news release.

Deputies pursued the vehicle at a dangerously high rate of speed from Franklin to the Burns Point area, where the vehicle crashed and suspects fled on foot, Anslum said. Through the investigation, deputies located Fullwood, Bridget and Webb.

Deputies found evidence they were occupying the vehicle being pursued.