Johnathon Perkins
Photo Courtesy of S.B.S.O.
From St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office
The St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office, along with the Louisiana State Police, the U.S. Marshals Service and the New Orleans Police Department, apprehended a New Orleans man wanted for stealing a vehicle with a young child inside from the parking lot of a Chalmette business last month, Sheriff James Pohlmann said.
Johnathon Perkins, 21, of the 4900 block of Lafaye Street in New Orleans, was booked with theft of motor vehicle, second degree kidnapping, child desertion and illegal possession of stolen property.
At approximately 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 29, Sheriff Pohlmann said, deputies with the Field Operations Bureau Patrol Division responded to a call for service in reference to a 2015 white Subaru Outback occupied by a small child being stolen from outside of a business in the 5300 block of Paris Road in Chalmette.
When deputies arrived on the scene the suspect had fled in the vehicle with the baby still inside. Deputies were able to locate the 1-year-old child unharmed and in good health sitting on the side of the road on an Almonaster Boulevard overpass in New Orleans. The vehicle also was found abandoned in New Orleans near the Desire Street overpass, still running with the hazard lights flashing.
During the course of the investigation, detectives with the SBSO Criminal Investigations Bureau were able to identify Perkins through video surveillance evidence and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Perkins was apprehended Thursday, June 30 around 4:30 p.m. near Avon Park Boulevard and Morrison Road in eastern New Orleans by SBSO and State Police.
