LAPLACE — Described by the sheriff as “menaces to society,” two LaPlace men are facing armed robbery charges and accusations from authorities that they would steal clothes off their victims’ backs.

“In one case, they even took shoes from a female victim,” St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre said. “When we did a search warrant on (the suspects’) vehicle, we found one of her shoes still inside the vehicle.”

Deiontae Johnson, 18, and Jeremy Michael Landfair, 23, were arrested at approximately 3 a.m. Monday after police said the duo committed a string of violent armed robberies in New Orleans and St. John Parish.

According to Tregre, the suspects would target “anybody on the street.”

“They took their (victims’) licenses, their credit cards, their cell phones and they had a habit of literally taking their shirts off their back, taking their clothes,” Tregre said. “When we did a search warrant on the vehicle, we found two guns described by the victims of these armed robberies that match those descriptions.”

Johnson is charged with felony armed robbery with a firearm, violation of probation/parole and is being held on a fugitive warrant issued by New Orleans Police Department.

Landfair is charged with felony armed robbery with firearm and is being held on a fugitive warrant issued by the New Orleans Police Department.

Working off a license plate number supplied by New Orleans Police, Tregre said the St. John Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division saturated the area tied to the vehicle’s registration Sunday and Monday, eventually spotting the vehicle.

A follow-up traffic stop led to the arrests of the vehicle’s two occupants, identified as Johnson and Landfair.

Tregre said officers secured a search warrant for the vehicle, and deputies “found multiple items belonging to multiple victims from armed robberies in New Orleans and also an armed robbery they committed in St. John.

“I think they were menaces to society, and they are going to be facing a lot of jail time,” Tregre said.

“I think we have some excellent cases to go forward with for prosecution.”