July 26, 2026
SLIDELL AREA, La. — A 16-year-old was arrested early Sunday after the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office linked him to a series of robberies targeting DoorDash drivers in the Lakeshore Villages area near Slidell.
Investigators said the juvenile placed delivery orders to addresses in and around the neighborhood without prepaying, waited for drivers to arrive, then forcibly took the food and fled.
STPSO said detectives identified the juvenile during the investigation and took him into custody after another driver was robbed while attempting to deliver a pizza order late Saturday night.
The juvenile was booked into the Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center on three counts of simple robbery, one count of first-degree robbery and one count of attempted simple robbery.
The allegations have not been adjudicated in court.