Shreveport Times

In July, Shreveport Police received reports of two small children wandering the intersection of Hollywood Avenue and West Canal Boulevard. Officers made contact with the children’s guardian, Clydetra Thomas, 25, of the 6800 block of Antioch, and arrested her on allegations of child desertion.

After Thomas’s initial arrest, the Department of Children and Family Services removed four children from the home. On Sept. 17, DCFS contacted Shreveport Police Youth Service Investigators and advised them that all four children tested positive for very high levels of cocaine. Four warrants were procured for Thomas’s arrest, charging her with four counts of cruelty to a juvenile.

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Thomas was taken into custody on Tuesday and booked into the Shreveport City Jail on no bond warrants.

