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National Corrections Supervisor Awarded
Congratulation to Sgt. Armen Alexandrian who has been certified as a national corrections supervisor. Alexandrian passed a written test in August at the American Correctional Association (ACA) Convention in August. Alexandrian is one of three nationally certified supervisors in the Lafayette Parish Corrections Division.

Citizen Praises Sheriff's Innovative Programs

Dear Sheriff Neustrom:

Just so you know that I do write complimentary letters in addition to those that criticize, please accept my praise for some of your innovative programs that have been recently highlighted in the media. The programs I speak of are the direct supervision of prisoners approach; the off-site telecommunication visitation for families of prisoners; the call program for the elderly; and the day reporting programs for some offenders. All of these programs show your very humanistic approach to corrections and the general human condition. You are a different kind of sheriff from the standard old Louisiana model, and it has taken some adjustment by the jaded downtown crowd (myself included) to see the wisdom of your ways. Anyway, thank you for your innovative programs, and I am always available with an opinion. I don't lack opinions.

With kind regards, I remain Very truly yours, Albert M. Karre', Jr.

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Arrest made in 1989 Murder Case

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Thursday March 16, 2006

Detectives with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office have arrested 37-year-old Daniel Harman of Lafayette, on charges of 1st Degree Murder and Failure to register as a Sex Offender.

The cold case investigator with the Lafayette Sheriff's Office was reviewing a case in which 19 year-old Christine Woods was murdered in her apartment on July 25, 1989. On that date the Sheriff's Office responded to a fire at 110 Marigny Circle; after the fire was extinguished a search of the apartments reveled the body of Christine Woods. An autopsy indicated that the victim died from multiple gunshot wounds.
The investigator took DNA evidence, which was preserved from this 1989 case, and forwarded it to the Acadiana Crime Lab, and a match with Daniel Harman returned from the national database. Detectives learned Harman had been incarcerated in a Tennessee Correctional Facility where his DNA was submitted. A search for Harman began and he was located and arrested Thursday morning March 16, 2006 at a residence on Lyons Street in Lafayette.

Lt. Craig Stansbury
Public Information Officer
Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office
337-236-5876