THIBODAUX, La. (AP) – A Raceland man has pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine and sentenced to 23 years in prison.
The Comet reported 33-year-old Juanches Shelby was originally charged with seven drug crimes. Assistant District Attorney Rene Gautreaux said the Lafourche Parish District Attorney’s Office dismissed all but one and agreed not to charge him under the habitual-offender law.
Shelby took the plea deal Tuesday while a jury was being selected for his trial.
Shelby’s most dramatic arrest was in April, when Lafourche deputies said he rammed a police vehicle with his car, ran over a fence and drove through lawns in Galliano, all with an unbuckled 18-month-old in the car.
The arrest was part of an investigation into crack cocaine in south Lafourche. Gautreaux said police did not find drugs on him during that arrest.
 
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