Kavanagh Drug Arrest

A search warrant was executed late last night at a home in the Pirates Cove area of Toledo Bend Lake in southwest Sabine Parish. 

The Sabine Parish Sheriff’s Tactical Narcotics Team had been investigating the illegal narcotic activity of Eugene Patrick Kavanagh III (age-56) of Florien for a couple of months. 

Sabine Parish Sheriff Deputies and T.N.T. Agents located approximately 3 ounces of suspected methamphetamine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia, and 5 firearms, one being an illegal length shotgun, during the search. 

Kavanagh’s friend, Miranda Rebecca Setliff (age-41) of Shreveport was also inside the residence at the time. 

Kavanagh was booked into the Sabine Parish Detention Center for Possession with intent to distribute schedule I (Marijuana), Possession with intent to distribute schedule II (Meth), Possession of schedule II (Meth), Possession of drug paraphernalia, Possession of firearm while in possession of CDS, Felon in possession of firearm, Possession of illegal shotgun, and a warrant for 6-counts of Distribution of Methamphetamine. 

Setliff was booked into the Sabine Parish Women’s Jail for Possession of with intent to distribute schedule I (Marijuana), Possession with intent to distribute schedule II (Meth), Possession of drug paraphernalia, Possession of firearm while in possession of CDS. 

No bonds have been set at this time by the 11th Judicial District Court. 

Author: Donna Montgomery