Chelsea Gaudin / Eyewitness News
HOUMA, La. - A Houma man was booked on second degree murder charges Saturday, four days after deputies arrested him for running from his house to elude them, naked with a plastic bag of cocaine partially stuffed inside his body.
Jamie Coleman was arrested by Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputies for the murder of Catina Stewart Jack, 38, of Gibson. Jack's body was discovered Wednesday on the side of the road in Thibodaux, according to a press release from the sheriff's office.
Investigators went to find Coleman, an acquaintance of Jack’s, Wednesday afternoon after gathering evidence at the scene and interviewing friends and family.
When authorities approached a house inside which they were told Coleman could be found, they said he ran from the back of the home.
After apprehending him, powder cocaine was found stuffed inside his anus, deputies said. Authorities also said they found cocaine inside the home.
Coleman was arrested on charges of attempting to distribute cocaine and child support issues, and later booked with murder.
Bond was set at $49,000 for the drug charges but no bond was set on the child support and murder charges. Deputies did not release information on a possible motive for the murder.
