By ROBIN SHANNON

L’Observateur

LAPLACE – A 17-year-old LaPlace man was arrested Thursday in connection with a November armed robbery, but St. John Parish authorities said Monday his accomplice in the heist is still at large.

Deputies with the St. John Sheriff’s Office Felony Intercept Unit apprehended Brandon Fields around 2:45 a.m. at his home in the 200 block of Joe Parquet Circle, said Capt. Dane Clement, a public information officer for the Sheriff’s Office. Fields was arrested on a warrant from an incident on Nov. 5, 2009, in which he and 19-year-old Travalen Narcisse robbed a man at gunpoint near a trailer home on Beech Street.

According to a Sheriff’s Office report on the robbery, a 24-year-old male victim told authorities two men robbed him of cash and his wallet sometime around 9 a.m. Nov. 5. The man told police both men were armed with handguns and said one of the men fired a shot that struck and damaged his trailer home.

Clement said deputies later learned the bullet traveled through the trailer, continued through a second trailer and finally came to rest on the floor of a third trailer. He said all three trailers were occupied at the time of the shooting, but no one was injured in the incident.

Clement said the victim was able to identify the two men as Narcisse and “BB,” who was later identified as Fields.

Fields was booked Thursday with armed robbery, aggravated criminal damage to property and attempted first degree murder, Clement said. He is being held at the Sherman Walker Correctional Center in LaPlace on a $425,000 bond.  

Authorities are still looking to arrest Narcisse, who is wanted on armed robbery, aggravated criminal damage to property, attempted first degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon charges. Clement said Narcisse’s last known address is on Carmichael Lane in LaPlace.

Anyone who knows anything on the possible whereabouts of Narcisse should call the St. John Sheriff’s Office at 985-652-6338 or Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.