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

Acadia Parish Sheriff K.P. Gibson, right, addresses media Thursday morning concerning a recently completed 45-day operation that resulted in the confiscation of numerous illegal handguns, a variety of narcotics and currency. Looking on is District Attorney Don Landry. (Photo by Steve Bandy/Crowley Post-Signal)
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…

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