DENHAM SPRINGS - Livingston Parish deputies arrested a man wanted out of St. James Parish on a large amount of narcotics and illegal firearm possession charges following him fleeing from deputies during a traffic stop.

Manndaryl Walters, Sr., 42, was arrested off Walker South Road in Denham Springs after being wanted out of St. James Parish.

St. James deputies initially attempted to stop Walters on a traffic violation while on La. Highway 44 near Lutcher. Walters, who was on a probated sentence for narcotics-related convictions, allegedly threw several bags of narcotics out of the vehicle and more was found in his abandoned vehicle later.

St. James deputies searched his home and found suspected marijuana, cannabis vapes, mojo, heroin, fentanyl, ecstasy, crack cocaine, powder cocaine, m

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