"Avatar" W's Favorite Swamp People Character Arrested

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Posted: Friday, September 6, 2013 11:47 am | Updated: 11:54 am, Fri Sep 6, 2013.
By JOHN DeSANTIS Senior Staff Writer Tri-Parish Times
You won't likely see the video on “Swamp People.”

But it was enough for warrants to be issued for Roland “RJ” Molinere Jr. and his son, Roland “J Paul” Molinere III, in connection with an alleged battery in front of a Bourg convenience store.
The father and son Swamp People stars were taken into custody by Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office detectives Friday after they failed to turn themselves in on an aggravated battery complaint as promised Thursday, and were transported to the Terrebonne Parish jail for booking.
“They are in the process,” said Maj. Malcolm Wolfe, Terrebonne Sheriff's Office chief of detectives, when asked if the pair had been booked yet. Wolfe confirmed that the two had been taken to the jail.
According to law enforcement officials the Molineres pulled up to Roland's Mini-Mart on La. 24 and began wailing on a man who had come out of the store.
The precise date of the incident was not immediately available but a detective said it was believed to have been within the past 10 days.
At least one of the Molineres, according to an official who viewed the store's surveillance video, had a beer bottle in his hand that was believed used as a weapon.
The victim of the incident, who was not immediately identified by law enforcement, did not require hospitalization.
As of 11:30 a.m a bond had not yet been set.
The video, expected to be used as evidence in the case, shows a pickup pulling up to the store with three men in it.
Two of the occupants went into the store while the driver waited. Another pickup with its hazard flashers blinking pulled into the lot and two men identified as the Molineres exited.
The video shows two men from the other truck emerged from the store, and the Molineres “wailing” on one of the men, according to an official who viewed the DVD supplied by the store.
Store owner Roland Henry, a former Terrebonne Parish School Board member, broke up the fracas. Deputies were later notified and a complaint was made.