Press Release

The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office was called out to a department store on Highway 14 in Lake Charles on December 31, in reference to a theft.

A Lake Charles man is charged with attempted second-degree murder after shooting his girlfriend in the leg during an argument that turned physical.

A weather-related traffic accident in Sulphur lead to the death of one man, and a second man being sent to a local hospital with "unknown" injuries.