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Abbeville man mistakenly freed from jail found in California
By montereyherald.com
Published: 09/28/2015

ST. JOSEPH, La. (AP) — California authorities have arrested an Abbeville man who had been mistakenly released from a Louisiana jail while awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge.

According to an FBI news release Derrick Mitchell, 24, was arrested Thursday in Stockton, California, about 50 miles south of Sacramento. The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/1LeTLTs) Mitchell is accused in the Dec. 20, 2012, killing of Darrell Broussard Jr., 25, of Abbeville. Mitchell allegedly forced his way into Broussard's home and shot him several times in the head.

The arrest happened after the Stockton FBI task force and Stockton Police Department received information that Mitchell was living in the area, said police spokesman Joey Silva. While conducting surveillance, they watched him walk out of a home and arrested him without incident.

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