(WVUE/FOX 8) Former St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain has been arrested by Louisiana State Police and accused of rape and incest.
District Attorney Warren Montgomery held a minute-long news conference at 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday (June 11) to announce the arrest.
Strain, 56, of Abita Springs, was arrested earlier in the morning and taken to the St. Tammany Parish Jail. He was charged in a grand jury indictment with two counts of aggravated rape, two counts of aggravated incest, indecent behavior with a juvenile and sexual battery, according to Montgomery.
Strain’s attorney, Bill Gibbens, has not returned a call for comment.