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If you drive past the Amazon Building on North Airport Road, you’ll notice a new facility going up. Right now, the cement is poured and the steel beams are in place.
Chad Vallo, the newly elected Police Jury president, recently educated Vermilion Parish Chamber members at its annual “state of the parish” breakfast about what was being built.
Vallo explained that a new “Emergency Operations 911 Communication Center” is being built. The total square footage is 11,000 at an $8 million price tag.

MAURICE — James Trevor Voorhies of Youngsville showed he was not the most careful criminal in South Louisiana.
Last week, Voorhies was seen on video allegedly taking a purse from the back of a chair at City Bar in Maurice.
A camera behind the bar shows a man who looks like Voorhies sitting at the bar, with the purse hanging from the same chair. He orders a drink, finishes it, and pays with a credit card under the name James Trevor Voorhies.
The video shows what seems to be Voorhies taking the purse and hiding it under his shirt, near his stomach.

The Vermilion Parish Sheriff's Office has received information from a local bank who has recently noticed an increase in sophisticated scams targeting the community.
In these recent scams, scammers are using fake emails, texts, and phone calls to pose as banks, utilities, government agencies, and other trusted organizations in an attempt to steal personal or financial information.