2nd UPDATE:  According to Public Information Officer Maxine Trahan, the deputies were stabbed while attempting to make an arrest at Leger’s grocery store in the 8000 block of Grand Prairie Highway. Trahan said the deputies are being treated at a Lafayette area hospital, and appear to have suffered non life threatening injuries.

Trahan also confirmed that the suspect was captured after being tased by one of the injured deputies.  His identity is still unknown as this time, but he has been treated and released from a local hospital and transported to the Acadia Parish Jail, she said.

UPDATE: According to Public Information Officer, Maxine Trahan, the deputies have been transported by air-med to a Lafayette hospital where their conditions are unknown at this time.

The identity and condition of the suspect has not been released.

ORIGINAL: The Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that two of its deputies were stabbed a short while ago while attemping to make an arrest near a grocery store in the 8000 block of Grand Prairie Hwy near Church Point/Mire.

We have a crew enroute and will update this story as the information becomes available.