ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that detectives are currently dragging the pontoon bridge in St. Martin Parish off Herman Dupuis Road.

Public Information Officer John Mowell tells KLFY that dive teams are conducting an article search in reference to a homicide that occurred in Carencro on December 27.

Bobby ‘BJ’ Duplechin was found dead in his grandmother’s house shortly after 7 p.m., in the 800 block of Highway 1252.

On Friday, Mowell said detectives made an arrest in connection with the case.

44 year old Joseph Delahoussaye of Carencro was booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on first degree murder charges.

Mowell said Delahoussaye was apprehended at a home in the 100 block of Rue De Jardin.

Delahoussaye was out on bond in connection with an earlier murder charge in the September, 2016 killing of 29 year old Rachael Alexander of Devils Lake, North Dakota.

Alexander was found shot to death in the 100-block of Georgine Street.

Initially, investigators called her death a suicide but then became suspicious and later determined the victim was murdered.

Delahoussaye was arrested and held on a $500,000 bond.