One man is dead and another is being transported to a south shore hospital this morning after falling asleep on a train track north of Pearl River. At approximately 8:20 a.m. this morning, the Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from the conductor of a northbound Amtrak train reporting that the train struck two men [...]

Kimberly Lee, the mother of the baby abandoned in Pearl River on Monday, has been released from the hospital and is in the process of being booked into the St. Tammany Parish Jail.  She is at the jail now.  No bond information is available at this time. The baby remains at the hospital, is no [...]

Early yesterday morning, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call reporting the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby. At approximately 7:00 a.m., a 13 year old boy called 911 reporting that he and his 15 year old sister had discovered a crying newborn baby wrapped in a towel and a blanket on [...]

At approximately 2:30 a.m. this morning, two deputies pulled to safety a woman who was trapped inside her overturned vehicle in a large, water filled ditch in the Slidell area. During routine patrol, Dy. Devin Coulon and Dy. Matt Fandal were dispatched to a report of a single vehicle crash on Bayou Liberty Road near [...]

A Slidell area man was arrested Wednesday following an incident involving himself and a 15 year old juvenile. Arrestee: Max Taylor – 1200 Eagle Lake Dr., Lot #37, Slidell (W/M – 09/02/65) A Slidell area resident reported an incident to the Sheriff’s Office on December 29th, 2011 regarding an adult male exposing himself to her [...]

The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s office is investigating the New Year’s Eve robbery of a Shell gas station on Hwy 11 in the Slidell area. At approximately 7:30 p.m. Saturday, a man dressed in a full ghillie suit (camouflage) and armed with a shotgun entered the station, located at 60239 Hwy 11, and ordered two [...]

A Bogalusa man was apprehended last week by Sheriff’s deputies while attempting to take copper from an AT&T storage site. Arrestee: Patrick Reed Stewart – 60069 Spring Valley Rd, Bogalusa (DOB 11/09/81) Detectives from the Sheriff’s office have been investigating a series of copper thefts from AT&T storage sites in St. Tammany since the beginning [...]

View an album of our 2011 Seniors Christmas Dinner pictures on our Flickr account: http://goo.gl/9sH7F

This year the St. Tammany Parish Deputies Association continued an old tradition: delivering Thanksgiving baskets to families who needed a little extra help celebrating this holiday. Instead of receiving names of families from local charities as it had in the past, however, the association looked to its own members for recommendations.  Deputies came together and [...]

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s deputies have arrested Chad Turkin (2405 Bluebird St, Slidell – DOB: 10/11/1987) after he attempted to break into two separate Slidell area residences early Wednesday morning. The Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from a resident on Mallard St. just before 1:00 a.m.  The homeowner reported someone had just knocked on [...]