Public Notices

Shreveport police are asking for the public’s help locating three people wanted in connection with separate financial crimes investigations involving fraudulent and stolen checks.

A 21-year-old man is facing three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer after allegedly opening fire on Shreveport officers following a vehicle pursuit.

The Shreveport Police Department is asking for the public’s help locating Arthur Ray Lockett Jr., who is wanted for failing to comply with Louisiana’s sex offender registration requirements. Lockett, a registered Tier 1 sex offender, allegedly failed to complete his required 2026 registration. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant on June 30 charging him with Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.

Shreveport Police officers have arrested a man following a violent domestic incident that occurred in the presence of children.

The lack of leadership at Shreveport City Hall has prevailed once again. Only a few weeks ago the City’s CAO, Tom Dark, confidently stated in the local media that there would be no employee pay raises in 2026. SPOA took Mr. Dark at his word. He is the person that has repeatedly taken money from the Shreveport Police Departments budget. He managed to get away with three million dollars in the 2024 budget cycle. The Shreveport City Council required him to leave 1.5 of the original 4.5-million-dollar heist for overtime. Overtime that will never end due to over 150 vacant positions within the police department. Instead of looking for the many ways to provide a retention raise to address that crisis, the answer for Mr. Dark and his boss, Mayor Tom Arceneaux, was to defund the police department further. Yes, it is called defunding when you take money away from a budget. Reducing a budget sounds much more attractive I admit, just remember it was taken from payroll. We simply asked for a retention raise during 2023 for the 2024 budget. We wanted to use the funded, unfilled position salaries to provide a pay raise with the hope that we could retain the remaining Officers. But the Shreveport City Council unanimously voted to let Mr. Dark take the money. Recently, tax payers have funded emergency meetings, special meetings of the Shreveport City Council. Those meetings have specifically been about crime in the streets. There have been no emergency meetings about brown drinking water that flows from our taps. There have been no emergency meetings about raging fires or even the deplorable condition of city streets. The rage has always been, and always be, crime. We are a union that is dedicated to the profession of law enforcement. We have existed since 1964. So many of the elected leaders use the issues surrounding our service and occupation as their ladder for political achievement. They use the issues, but forget the needs once elected. On November 7, 2025, we submitted a 10% base pay raise proposal to all seven Council Members. I personally wrote their names on each packet, and affixed an SPOA logo. We then hand delivered the packets to the City Council office staff. The first and only pay proposal request of the 2026 city budget cycle for the police officers. We assumed that all other labor organizations would complete their obligatory duty for their members. As it turns out, submitting a pay proposal for the members that pay dues to SPOA is some how wrong in this council’s eyes.

A Shreveport man accused of stealing his sister’s $6,000 wedding ring has been arrested in Arkansas and is awaiting extradition to Caddo Parish.

September 2, 2025

In response to a recent homicide and the shooting of two juveniles, the Shreveport Police Department, in collaboration with the Shreveport City Marshal’s Office, conducted a joint operation at the Lifestyle Apartments located in the 4200 block of Lakeshore Drive. The targeted operation resulted in the arrest of multiple individuals, several of whom were found to have active warrants and illegal contraband. Notably, the majority of those arrested did not reside at the apartment complex and were not listed on any leases.