🇺🇸 Louisiana, United States
RSS15 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 27
- Plants destroyed
- 132
- Cannabis seized
- 12.9498 kg
- Deaths
- 1
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 1
- Raid · 2
- Arrest · 9
- Sentence · 2
- Death · 1
Reports
15 reports · newest first
Shreveport man, 21, arrested with 28.6 g of marijuana on Louisiana Tech campus
Louisiana Tech University police arrested 21-year-old Elijah Brooks of Shreveport at 10:29 a.m. on Nov. 6 after a report of a man smoking marijuana in a red car in a campus parking lot. Officers seized 28.6 grams of marijuana, including a partially consumed blunt, and booked him on a charge of possession of marijuana on a university campus.
Arrested 1Cannabis 28.6 gRuston man, 23, arrested after speeding stop finds 37.1 g of marijuana
Ruston police arrested 23-year-old Dmitry Payne during a speeding stop on Nov. 4 and found six packaged baggies of suspected marijuana weighing 37.1 grams in a jar in his car. He was booked on possession with intent to distribute a Schedule I drug.
Arrested 1Cannabis 37.1 gThree family members arrested in Luling; 13.7 g of marijuana seized
Three family members were arrested on 3 November 2026 after St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies searched a residence in Luling, Louisiana, and seized 13.71 grams of marijuana, 2.06 grams of fentanyl and a handgun. Chad Bettencourt, Charles Bettencourt and Patricia Bettencourt each face multiple charges, including possession of marijuana within 2,000 feet of an elementary school.
Arrested 3Charged 3Cannabis 13.71 gSites 11 arrested as Baton Rouge police raid 2 businesses, seize 14 lb marijuana
Baton Rouge police arrested Elvin Presley on 3 November 2026 after a fugitive task force located him in a business on Cottondale Drive, then executed search warrants at two businesses on the street. Officers seized 14 pounds of marijuana plus cocaine, guns, scales and body armor, and Presley was booked on drug, weapons and domestic-abuse charges.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 6.35 kgEvangeline Parish raid finds 132 cannabis plants behind a Mamou camper; man charged
Evangeline Parish sheriff’s deputies searched a camper and three greenhouses at 1058 Vasseur Lane in Mamou on 2 November 2026 and seized 132 marijuana plants, 971 grams of marijuana, two rifles and kratom capsules. They later arrested the sole resident, 42-year-old Jimmy Lynn Wilson, on a possession-with-intent count, 132 marijuana cultivation counts and two firearm counts.
Arrested 1Charged 1Plants destroyed 132Cannabis 971 g
Seven arrested in West Baton Rouge drug bust, four on marijuana counts
West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies arrested seven people on drug charges, four of them on marijuana counts, and said three more suspects were still wanted. The marijuana counts range from distribution and possession with intent to distribute to a second-offence possession charge.
Arrested 7Ruston man arrested with 11 grams of marijuana after speeding stop
Ruston police arrested 24-year-old Ja’laen Bonner during a speeding stop on Oct. 28 and seized 11.1 grams of marijuana from his vehicle. He was booked for marijuana possession alongside outstanding warrants, including a district-court warrant for possession with intent to distribute a Schedule I drug.
Arrested 1Cannabis 11.1 g350 grams of marijuana and two guns seized in Shreveport stop
On 20 October 2026 Shreveport police stopped a Toyota sedan for a faulty brake light and recovered about 350 grams of suspected marijuana in two bags with a Glock 19 and a Glock 23. Driver Kenyon Gardner also had five outstanding traffic warrants; neither source states whether he was arrested or charged.
Cannabis 350 gShreveport warrant raid seizes about 10 pounds of marijuana and three guns
Shreveport police and city marshals arrested Robert Henderson and Semja Henderson on 8 October 2026 after a violent-crimes team search of a Grassmere Street home turned up about 10 pounds of marijuana, $12,395 in cash and three firearms. Robert Henderson faced marijuana distribution and weapon charges; Semja Henderson faced a distribution count.
Arrested 2Cannabis 4.536 kg
20252 reports
Port Allen man known as 'Jamaica' held on marijuana and meth charges
West Baton Rouge Parish narcotics agents arrested a 56-year-old Port Allen man known as "Jamaica" after several undercover purchases of marijuana and methamphetamine, then seized more than 50 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at his house. He was booked on ten charges, including three counts of distributing marijuana, with bond set at $375,000.
Arrested 1Cannabis 50 g
2 arrested as Baton Rouge SWAT raid on Skysail Avenue finds 1.04 lb marijuana
East Baton Rouge Parish deputies arrested two men after a SWAT search of a Skysail Avenue home in Baton Rouge, where Daigre was seen on video flushing what looked like drugs down a toilet. Deputies seized 1.04 pounds (about 472 grams) of marijuana along with methamphetamine, cocaine, a stolen 9 mm handgun and $386, and charged Daigre with intent to distribute marijuana and other drugs.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 471.7 gSites 1
20201 report
Fate Winslow freed after 12 years of life sentence for $20 marijuana sale
Fate Winslow, 53, walked free from Angola prison in December 2020 after a judge resentenced him to 12 years with credit for time served, ending a life sentence imposed in 2008 for selling $20 of marijuana while homeless in Shreveport. The Innocence Project New Orleans drove the resentencing under Louisiana's habitual-offender law.
Prison life without parole (resentenced to 12 years, time served)
20131 report
New Orleans man gets 13 years for two joints under habitual-offender law
A New Orleans court resentenced Bernard Noble to 13 years and four months of hard labour on 7 May 2013 for carrying about three grams of marijuana, after the state supreme court restored the habitual-offender minimum. His case became a national symbol of harsh drug sentencing before his 2018 release.
Arrested 1Charged 1Cannabis 3 gPrison 13 years 4 months
20122 reports
Four former LSU football players arrested over marijuana in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge police arrested former LSU players Tyrann Mathieu, Jordan Jefferson, Karnell Hatcher and Derrick Bryant on marijuana charges on 25 October 2012 after being called to Mathieu's apartment. Officers found a grinder, a digital scale and 10 bags of high-grade marijuana, and all four were booked on possession or distribution counts; three were released on bail the next morning.
Arrested 4Charged 4Released 3
Officer kills unarmed Wendell Allen, 20, in a New Orleans pot raid
New Orleans police officer Joshua Colclough shot dead unarmed 20-year-old Wendell Allen during a marijuana search-warrant raid in Gentilly on 7 March 2012. Officers found 4.5 ounces of marijuana plus bags, scales and a handgun and arrested two men; a grand jury later indicted Colclough for manslaughter.
Arrested 2Cannabis 127.6 gDeaths 1
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