45-day operation nets 69 arrests, 17 illegal guns, 1,408 grams of narcotics

CROWLEY — Fifty-six felony investigations. Sixty-nine arrests. Seventeen illegal guns and 1,408 grams of narcotics taken off the streets.

That’s a “by-the-numbers” breakdown of a 45-day operation recently completed by the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office focusing on the “hardest hit” areas of violence in the parish.

At a press conference Thursday morning, Sheriff K.P. Gibson said the operation was con…