Category Archives: OPSO News

In May of 1987, Perry H. Mercer, Jr. applied to work at the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office. After an employee background check Pat Mercer, as he was known to us, was hired and sworn in as a deputy with our department. According to our records, Pat Mercer stated that the...

On 2/26/13, OPSO deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call from the victim stating that he had been shot. Deputies tracked the GPS location of the phone and began to respond. Deputies located the victim and the suspect, Fredrick L. Jones, on Hwy 594 just past the Frontage Road in Monroe....

On 2/14/13, the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office investigated an armed robbery of individuals that occurred on the complex of Town & Country Apartments on Old Sterlington Rd in Monroe. On 2/15/13, Investigators obtained an arrest warrant for Justin D. Perkins,25yo, of 22 Oakwood Drive, for one count of Armed Robbery....

You better watch out I’m telling you why! The Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Department SCAT team has once again began their annual “Santa Claus Patrol”. This unique patrol involves members of this unit wearing plain clothes and using unmarked vehicles to frequent retail stores and parking lots that are busy with...

Captain Robert Davis passed away December 9, 2012. Robert Davis began his career with the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office under Sheriff Bailey Grant in October of 1972. Davis’s 40 year career spanned six different sheriff’s terms. In June 1980 he graduated from the 122nd session of the FBI National Academy...