TPSO Street Crimes Unit Makes Arrest on Outstanding Violent Crime Warrant

NATALBANY (October 19, 2026)- Over the weekend, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office (TPSO) Street Crimes Unit located and arrested a suspect who had been wanted in connection with a drive-by shooting back in August of 2025.

Jylin Sanders, 23, has been booked on one count each of Aggravated Assault by Drive-By Shooting, Illegal Discharge of a Weapon, and Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property.

In the evening hours of August 27, 2025, as two men were pulling into the driveway of a home on Dead End Street off of LA1064, dozens of shots were fired in their direction. No one was injured, but it was determined that the vehicle they were in and the home they were in front of were struck.

The investigation revealed the shots were fired from a blue Volvo with a Mississippi license plate. Information about the case and a picture of the vehicle were shared with the public and tips came in helping detectives identify Sanders and Byron White, 23, as the shooters. Warrants were issued for their arrest, but efforts to locate them were unsuccessful.

In December 2025, White was arrested on this case’s warrants while being investigated for an unrelated incident.

Then, in the early morning hours of Saturday, October 17, TPSO’s Street Crimes Unit took Sanders into custody after he was discovered as a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over as part of the unit’s proactive patrols.

The Street Crimes Unit was established in July and has logged more than 600 traffic stops and made just under 100 arrests in its first three months. The unit focuses its enforcement efforts on potential violent crime incidents, especially involving guns and drugs, in the parish’s high-risk areas determined by statistics, intel on active conflicts among neighborhood gangs, and tips from the public.

TPSO Public Information Office, pio@tpso.org