BRAITHWAITE—
A joint investigation by the Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parish sheriff's offices led to the arrest Wednesday of a Chalmette man who allegedly tried to lure into a truck a 10-year-old girl near Braithwaite on the East Bank of Plaquemines.Ivy Bourgeois, 26, was booked Wednesday with attempted kidnapping of the girl, who wasn't injured, according to sheriff's officials in Plaquemines and St. Bernard.
The girl said a man in a white truck tried to lure her into the vehicle, but she refused and ran home to tell her mother, who reported the incident.
A man who lived in the area told investigators he had received a flier for a grass-cutting operation from a man in a white truck and the number on the flier was traced to a Chalmette residence, authorities said. Further investigation by sheriff's officials in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes led to the alleged truck used in the incident and to Bourgeois as a suspect.
The girl was able to identify both Bourgeois and the truck in photo lineups she was shown, sheriff's officials said. Bourgeois was taken to the Belle Chasse lockup, said Maj. John Marie of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office.
