Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre says his deputies arrested a Thibodaux man who was found with a variety of narcotics just outside a Raceland hospital early Monday morning.
“At around 12:30 a.m. on March 1, 2021, deputies noticed a vehicle traveling erratically in the area near Ochsner St. Anne Hospital,” said Sheriff Webre in a police report. “Eventually, the driver of the vehicle parked near the emergency room. Deputies made contact with the driver to check on him, and detected the odor of suspected marijuana coming from the vehicle. Deputies identified the driver as David Ball and learned he had a warrant for his arrest in Terrebonne Parish.”
Webre says a K-9 deputy which was on the scene alerted deputies to possible drugs in the vehicle. Deputies searched Ball’s car and found various drugs, some packed in separate bags.
In all, Webre says Ball was found to have over 75 grams of suspected methamphetamine, over 30 grams of suspected marijuana, and over 11 grams of suspected heroin, as well as four doses of Suboxone and three doses of methadone.
Ball was arrested and booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex in Thibodaux. He is charged with several drug possession charges.
