Deputies of the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office searched a camper and three greenhouses at 1058 Vasseur Lane in Mamou on 2 November 2026, after a 10 October tip that a greenhouse there held a large amount of marijuana.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Agents investigated and watched the property before obtaining the search warrant.[3] The owner, 42-year-old Jimmy Lynn Wilson, was the sole resident of the camper and land and was not there during the search.[1][7][10]

Deputies seized 132 marijuana plants and 971 grams of marijuana.[1][2][4][11][7][9][10] They also took two rifles, a Remington Model 700 .270 and a Savage Model 19 .22 Long Rifle, and 45 kratom capsules.[1][2][4][7][10] The sheriff’s office put the street value of the drugs at about $32,450[1][2][7][10]; another account gives about $132,000 for the plants alone and $50 for the kratom.[3]

Deputies later found and arrested Wilson and charged him with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and 132 counts of cultivation, production, distribution or possession with intent to distribute marijuana, all felonies under Louisiana Revised Statute 40:966.[1][2][4][5][7][10] He was also charged with two counts of possessing a firearm in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance under Louisiana Revised Statute 14:95E.[1][2][7][10]