The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office along with the Baton Rouge City Constable’s Office, Probation and Parole and the EBR District Attorney’s Office carried out a warrant initiative yesterday evening in the St. John and King Bradford area (bordered by South Harrell’s Ferry Road, O’Neal Lane and King Bradford) to create a safer environment for residents that resulted in approximately 15 arrests and the clearing of  36 outstanding warrants. Law Enforcement also towed one vehicle without proof of insurance.

This is one of many initiatives for the Sheriff’s Office, and is the eighteenth such event for the Warrants Division. Similar initiatives in other areascollectively resulted in hundreds of arrests and  cleared more than 1,000 outstanding warrants.

The agencies conducted criminal patrols, bike patrols, traffic safety checkpoints and foot patrols going door to door in the various area talking to residents in an effort to foster a safer environment in the neighborhood.  Divisions represented from the Sheriff’s Office were Community Policing Unit, K-9, Detectives, Narcotics, SCAT, Armed Robbery and Burglary, Auto Theft, Financial Crimes, Warrants, Civil and representatives from each substation.  Supervisors, including Sheriff Gautreaux, colonels, majors and captains from each division were present.