Numerous thefts are being investigated in Bossier City: See when and where
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Numerous thefts are being investigated in Bossier City: See when and where
More than a half-dozen thefts that happened within a span of 48 hours last week are being investigated by Bossier City police, according to official records. BCPD also made an arrest for aggravated arson of an inhabited building.
This is BossierNow’s reporting of Bossier City Police Department incidents and arrests. This report covers the actions that occurred from June 11 to 13, 2025. Identities of subjects involved in misdemeanor arrests or traffic citations are withheld.
Bossier City Police incidents and arrests report: June 11 - 13, 2025
All persons named or shown are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
06/11/2025 00:14:00 Incident 1300 Blk Swan Lake Rd/Shed Rd Bossier City, La Possession Schedule I (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/11/2025 00:19:00 Incident 2900 Blk Old Minden Rd/Bailey Dr Bossier City, La No Driver's License (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/11/2025 01:54:00 Arrest 4500 Blk Voss Dr Bossier City, La Domestic Abuse Battery - Simple (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Female, Age 46
06/11/2025 02:26:00 Citation 777 Margaritaville Way Bossier City 1) Turning Movements And Required Signals, and 2) Expired Driver's License Black Or African American, Male, Age 30
06/11/2025 02:26:00 Incident 700 Blk Margaritaville Way Bossier City, La Possession Schedule I (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/11/2025 03:11:00 Arrest 700 Blk Margaritaville Way Bossier City, 1) Possession Schedule I (Felony), 2) Possession Schedule II (Felony), 3) Failure To Signal At Least 100 Ft (Misdemeanor), and 4) Expired Driver's License (Misdemeanor) Detavion Grisby, Black Or African American, Male, Age 30
06/11/2025 06:27:00 Arrest 600 Blk Benton Rd Bossier City, La Failure To Appear-Improper Window Covering (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Male, Age 48
06/11/2025 07:00:00 Arrest 600 Blk Benton Rd Bossier City, La Failure To Appear / DUS (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Male, Age 34
06/11/2025 07:13:00 Arrest 2500 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, La 1) Possession Schedule I (Felony), 2) Sale, Distribution Or Possession Of Legend Drug Without Prescription (Misdemeanor), 3) Prohibited Acts - Drug Paraphernalia (Misdemeanor), and 4) Illegal Use Of Controlled Dangerous Substances In The Presence of a minor (Misdemeanor) Kendra Monique Manning, Black Or African American, Female, Age 30
06/11/2025 08:25:00 Arrest 2900 Blk Old Plain Dealing Rd Plain Dealing, La Theft (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Female, Age 49
06/11/2025 09:05:00 Incident 1900 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, La Theft From Building (Active)
06/11/2025 09:40:00 Incident 300 Blk Riverside Dr Bossier City, La Theft From Building (Active)
06/11/2025 10:40:00 Incident 2000 Blk The Blake Blvd Bossier City, La Theft (Active)
06/11/2025 11:22:00 Arrest 600 Blk Benton Rd Bossier City, Tx Failure To Appear-No Seatbelt (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Female, Age 32
06/11/2025 11:28:00 Incident 2000 Blk Airline Dr Bossier City, La Theft - Shoplifting (Active)
06/11/2025 11:35:00 Incident 5000 Blk Castille Ct Bossier City, La Theft (Active)
06/11/2025 11:58:00 Incident 2500 Blk Airline Dr Bossier City, La Theft Of A Motor Vehicle (Active)
06/11/2025 12:15:00 Citation 1919 Northgate Rd/Old Minden Rd Bossier City 1) Hit And Run, and 2) Reckless Operation Of A Vehicle White Or Caucasian, Female, Age 37
06/12/2025 00:15:00 Incident 3200 Blk Murphy St Bossier City, La Simple Burglary - From Motor Vehicle (Active)
06/12/2025 01:41:00 Incident 4500 Blk Donnie Av Bossier City, La False Communication With Intent To Cause Emerg Response (Active)
06/12/2025 02:25:00 Incident 2000 Blk Benton Rd/Riverwood Dr Bossier City, La Fugitive Arrest (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/12/2025 02:28:00 Arrest 2000 Blk Benton Rd/Riverwood Dr Bossier City, La Fugitive Arrest-SPD (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Male, Age 36
06/12/2025 05:01:00 Arrest 400 Blk Hamilton Rd/Cox St Bossier City, La Fugitive Arrest/ Bossier S.O. (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 35
06/12/2025 10:28:00 Arrest 600 Blk Benton Rd Bossier City, La Aggravated Arson - Inhabited Dwelling (Felony) Terell Stewart, Black Or African American, Male, Age 37
06/12/2025 11:27:00 Incident 600 Blk Bloomington Ln Bossier City, La Stalking (Active)
06/12/2025 13:35:00 Incident 2500 Blk Montgomery Ln Bossier City, La Child Desertion (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/12/2025 14:41:00 Incident 6200 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, La Theft (Active)
06/12/2025 16:08:00 Arrest 1500 Blk Hamilton Rd Bossier City, La Fugitive Arrest / CPSO (Felony) John Michael Mitchell, Black Or African American, Male, Age 22
06/13/2025 00:29:00 Arrest 1000 Blk Barksdale Blvd/McCormick St Bossier City, 1) Driving While Intoxicated - First Offense (Misdemeanor), and 2) Failure To Stop/Yield (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 62
06/13/2025 00:31:00 Incident 1100 Blk McDonald St/Schuler Dr Bossier City, La Possession Schedule I (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/13/2025 00:34:00 Citation 1701 E Texas St Bossier City 1) Turning Movements And Required Signals, and 2) DUS - Driving Under Suspension Black Or African American, Female, Age 44
06/13/2025 00:34:00 Incident 1700 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, La Resisting An Officer (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/13/2025 00:58:00 Arrest 1700 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, 1) Resisting An Officer (Misdemeanor), 2) DUS - Driving Under Suspension (Misdemeanor), and 3) Turning Movements And Required Signals (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Female, Age 44
06/13/2025 01:05:00 Incident 1900 Blk E Texas St Bossier City, La Simple Criminal Damage To Property (Exceptionally Cleared)
06/13/2025 01:45:00 Arrest 1100 Blk McDonald St/Schuler Dr Bossier City, 1) Possession Schedule I (Misdemeanor), 2) Distribute Or Poss W/Intent Schedule I (Felony), 3) Possession Schedule II (Felony), and 4) Prohibited Acts - Drug Paraphernalia (Misdemeanor) Zachary Taylor Williams, Black Or African American, Male, Age 33
06/13/2025 02:00:00 Citation 299 Watson St/Barksdale Blvd Bossier City Headlamps On Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles, Motor-Driven Cycle White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 32
06/13/2025 02:15:00 Arrest 1100 Blk McDonald St/Schuler Dr Bossier City, 1) Possession Schedule II (Felony), 2) Distribute Or Poss W/Intent Schedule I (Felony), and 3) Prohibited Acts - Drug Paraphernalia (Misdemeanor) Ellen Marie Ewing, Black Or African American, Female, Age 43
06/13/2025 02:44:00 Arrest 200 Blk Watson St/Barksdale Blvd Bossier City, 1) Driving While Intoxicated (Misdemeanor), and 2) Headlamps On Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles, Motor-Driven Cycle (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 32
06/13/2025 03:44:00 Incident 2400 Blk Barksdale Blvd Bossier City, La Possession Schedule I (Cleared By Arrest/Adult)
06/13/2025 08:25:00 Incident 1600 Blk Barksdale Blvd Bossier City, La Simple Burglary - Residence/Business (Active)
06/13/2025 10:00:00 Arrest 1400 Blk Carver St Ringgold, La D/P - Drunkenness (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Male, Age 33
06/13/2025 10:00:00 Arrest 700 Blk Horseshoe Blvd Bossier City, La Fugitive Arrest / BPSO (Misdemeanor) Black Or African American, Male, Age 47
06/13/2025 15:15:00 Arrest 1100 Blk Forum Dr Shreveport, La Theft (Felony) Thomas Kyle Plunkett, White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 37
06/13/2025 15:27:00 Arrest 1100 Blk Forum Dr Shreveport, La Theft - Shoplifting (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 37
06/13/2025 15:36:00 Arrest 1100 Blk Forum Dr Shreveport, La Theft - Shoplifting (Misdemeanor) White Or Caucasian, Male, Age 37
Pest company's travel warning for 'most bed bug infested' cities includes Shreveport: Did they mean Shreveport-Bossier?
Here's another list that you don't want your hometown to be on: the most bed bug-infested cities. The research was conducted by a source that should know what it's talking about: the pest control company Terminix.
The list of top 50 bed bug-infested cities in the US, based on actual service calls, puts Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Dallas-Fort Worth in the top five. You might think that New Orleans would represent Louisiana on such a list, but no — Shreveport is the lone Louisiana location representing the Bayou State.
There is no evidence that this is Shreveport-Bossier data, as is often the case with such metro area analyses. But, you've got to wonder. While other sister cities, such as Little Rock-Pine Bluff and Tampa-St. Petersburg are noted, Shreveport is the singular mention at number 41.
One surprise entry on the notorious list: nearby Tyler-Longview, which ranks number 45.
When traveling in a hotel or Airbnb, Terminix advises that the best defense against snuggling up in a bed with bugs is knowing how to identify them and spot the signs of an infestation.
"Inspect the mattress seams, headboard, and nearby furniture for small, rust-colored stains, shed skins, or live bed bugs. Adult bed bugs are approximately the size of an apple seed, so be sure to examine closely, as they can be easily missed.
Use a flashlight (your phone works as well) to check deep crevices, folds, and corners.
Look for evidence around nightstands, the edges of chairs or sofas, and in the joints of drawers.
Avoid placing your luggage on the bed or floor while you inspect the room."
When returning home, unpack your suitcase on a hard surface, such as a table or desk, rather than on your bed or carpet. And preferably outdoors. Place your clothing in a dryer with high heat for about 30 minutes to kill any live bed bugs or eggs before washing.
And enjoy your summertime visit to New York, Dallas, Houston — or Shreveport.
Louisiana legislative session 2025: Winners and losers
Louisiana lawmakers adjourned the 2025 regular legislative session on Thursday, having passed a budget with hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure spending, bills aimed at lowering insurance rates, and a comprehensive rewrite of state ethics laws.
In its early days, the eight-week session was initially dominated by a battle between insurance companies and personal injury attorneys over how to lower car insurance rates.
That policy dispute also led to a showdown between Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple and Gov. Jeff Landry, both Republicans, over who should be held responsible for Louisiana’s sky-high insurance costs.
At the end of the session, the governor engaged in a power struggle with Senate President Cameron Henry over private school vouchers and prescription drug regulations.
The following list evaluates how certain political figures and causes fared in the lawmaking session:
TOSS-UP: Gov. Jeff Landry
Landry lost a couple of high-profile legislative fights with the Senate over his signature private education voucher initiative and prescription drug regulations.
Landry’s public rally with school children that was meant to pressure legislators into funding more vouchers didn’t elicit the response he wanted. The ultimatum he issued to call lawmakers back into a special session also didn’t force the Senate into passing the pharmacy bill he was backing.
On other fronts, however, he had legislative victories. He was largely able to get his agenda to address Louisiana’s car insurance crisis through the Legislature. A number of bills that reworked the way state agencies — including the Louisiana Workforce Commission, Department of Transportation and Development and the Department of Children and Family Services — function also passed.
LOSER: Government transparency
Lawmakers approve a handful of bills that will make it difficult to scrutinize government officials for inappropriate behavior, government corruption and conflicts of interest.
House Bill 681 by Rep. Marcus Bryant, D-New Iberia, could subject people to jail time and fines if they post personal information about state lawmakers, statewide elected officials and Public Service Commissioners on the internet.
It prevents the elected officials’ home addresses, phone numbers, personal email addresses, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, federal tax identification numbers, bank account numbers, credit and debit card numbers, license plate numbers from being published in government records or on a public website. Also protected under the law are marital records and birthdates.
An official’s church, the school or daycare their child attends and the employment location of their spouse, children or dependents would also be shielded.
Two other pieces of legislation that massively write government ethics and campaign finance laws would also lead to less disclosure of who is donating to and spending money on political campaigns.
WINNER: Government corruption
Along with weakening public transparency laws, Landry and lawmakers have made it harder for the Louisiana Board of Ethics to charge any elected official, public employee or government contractor with wrongdoing.
The change to the board’s investigative process may simply allow those accused of wrongdoing to run out the clock on the board’s ability to even bring charges against them, according to the board’s own members.
The board is only given a year to investigate and charge a person with a violation before it reaches a legal deadline to do so. The new process for investigations is more time-consuming and will make it difficult to finish on time, board members said.
LOSER: Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple
Temple successfully pushed most of his legislative agenda through, but he lost a public feud to fellow Republican Landry over a bill that would allow the governor to cast blame onto him for the state’s insurance crisis. He will now have greater authority to reject insurance rate hikes, a responsibility he doesn’t want to have. And he will be open to criticism when he doesn’t turn down rate increases that are not popular with the public.
WINNER: Insurance industry
Insurance companies are the real winners of Temple’s agenda of “tort reform” bills they have been trying to get on the books for years. The new laws are supposed to tamp down lawsuits and reduce the amount of money plaintiffs can recover from bodily injury accidents.
LOSERS: Carbon capture critics
Carbon capture and sequestration made a cozy home for itself in Louisiana this session. Bills attempting to assert local control over where and whether projects to store injected carbon dioxide underground happen largely died in committees.
Other moves to ban the practice entirely or tax CO2 injection also got little love. Surviving CCS measures that made it into law are provisions restricting the use of eminent domain for CO2 storage transport pipelines and keeping court venues for these eminent domain claims local to the parish in question.
WINNERS: Public school teachers
Landry and lawmakers had initially said they would not give public school teachers another $2,000 pay stipend after a constitutional amendment to provide that money permanently failed to pass in March. They quickly backtracked, however, and ultimately reinstated the teacher’s stipend in the budget for the 2025-2026 school year.
The lawmakers are also putting another constitutional amendment on the ballot next year that would raise teacher pay slightly if the voters approve it. Teachers and school support staff would get $2,250 and $1,125 more, respectively, in their permanent pay if the ballot proposition passes.
The teachers also successfully fought off legislation that would have made it harder for their unions to collect dues that are automatically deducted from paychecks.
LOSERS: Abortion medication providers
Doctors and activists who provide abortion-inducing medications to Louisianians could be sued under a proposal approved by lawmakers.
House Bill 575 by Rep. Lauren Ventrella, R-Greenwell Springs, easily passed both chambers. She dubbed her proposal the “Justice for Victims of Abortion Drug Dealers Act,” though it would apply to all forms of the procedure.
In addition to allowing out-of-state providers to be sued, it extends the window for filing litigation from three years to five.
TOSS-UP: College athletes
Louisiana college athletes will not be receiving a tax exemption on their name, image and likeness (NIL) income this year, as two proposals to do so stalled due to the state’s lean budget situation. But lawmakers may take another crack at it after a task force meets over the next year and submits recommendations for NIL legislation.
But each Division I college athletics program in Louisiana will be the beneficiary of an increased gambling tax, which will send nearly $2 million annually to be spent on expenses benefiting athletes.
WINNERS: Nursing home owners
Nursing home owners were able to pass legislation that will limit the damages collected from wrongful death and injury lawsuits brought against their facilities.
There are 60-plus pending lawsuits from former clients and their families against nursing home ownership groups across the state currently.
LOSERS: Civil service workers
Lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment that could weaken the state civil service system that provides protections to thousands of state employees. The proposal still needs approval from Louisiana voters before it’s enacted, but the fact that the bill made it out of the legislature this year signals that a two-thirds majority of lawmakers may no longer value a system that has held strong in Louisiana for roughly 70 years.
WINNERS: DEI proponents
A proposal that would have prohibited diversity, equity and inclusion practices across state government and prohibit state universities and colleges from requiring certain race and gender-based curricula for undergraduate students was purposefully stalled in the Senate.
Henry, the senate president, said the measure was unnecessary.
The bill was also opposed by The Louisiana chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
LOSERS: People incarcerated on split-jury verdicts
Louisiana voters amended the state constitution in 2018 to eliminate convictions through non-unanimous juries in felony criminal trials, but the change didn’t apply to such verdicts before the change. Two years later, U.S. Supreme Court ruled that split-jury verdicts were unconstitutional, but it left it up to Louisiana to determine whether their ruling would apply to older cases.
Lawmakers have tried multiple times since then to provide an avenue for those convicted by non-unanimous juries to seek a review of their cases. Sen. Royce Duplessis, D-New Orleans, managed to get his bill through committee this year, but it was shot down on the Senate floor despite having the support of the Louisiana Republican Party and GOP Congressman Clay Higgins, an ardent anti-crime proponent.
LOSER: Wetlands
It is now easier to build in Louisiana’s isolated wetland areas — kind of. The state adopted a new definition of what counts as a wetland with Senate Bill 94 by Senator Mike “Big Mike” Fesi, R-Houma, excluding areas cut off from surface water connection to rivers and lakes or surrounded by levees.
Despite some legal confusion as to whether the legislation violates the Clean Water Act, there are now legal avenues to argue that these isolated wetland areas don’t need permits to drain, dredge and fill.
WINNER: Fortified roof program
Lawmakers have embraced the state’s fortified roof program as one of the only effective means of lowering homeowner insurance rates. This session, they established a new $10,000 income tax credit that should go a significant way in helping homeowners afford the hurricane-resistant roofs.
WINNER: Saudi Arabia
Louisiana has included $7 million in the state budget to fund a LIV Golf League event, which is expected to take place at the Bayou Oaks golf course in New Orleans City Park next summer.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds with nearly $1 trillion in assets, owns LIV Golf.
LOSER: Weather modification
The governor has signed a bill that bans the dispersion of chemicals for weather modification. Technological advances have reportedly produced results in rain-starved areas, but they have also launched far more unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Louisiana joins Florida and Tennessee with new laws based on this speculation, and similar legislation is under consideration in other states.
– By Julie O’Donoghue, Piper Hutchinson, Wes Muller, Elise Plunk and Greg LaRose contributed to this analysis/Louisiana Illuminator
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