NPD
Natchitoches Police Department officers and Natchitoches Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force agents attempted to stop a vehicle in the 700 block of Texas Street Thursday, Feb. 24 around 1:05 p.m. The vehicle refused to stop and led law enforcement on a pursuit through several neighborhoods before stopping on Amulet Street near Payne Street. During the pursuit, the suspect threw a fully loaded AR-15 out his window. He crashed into a vehicle that was travelling on Lake Street.
Reginald Thompson, b/m, 22, of Natchitoches was placed under arrest on outstanding warrants for Illegal Carrying of a Firearm, Illegal Supplying a Felon with a Firearm and Possession of a Firearm on the Premises of an Alcohol Beverage Outlet in reference to a shooting that took place at a business in the 600 block of South Drive in May of 2021.
Thompson was placed in the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center.