Local business owner charged with home invasion

The owner of Sooner Towing and Auto Salvage in Ville Platte and his son were arrested last weekend by St. Landry Parish deputies and charged with in a home invasion in that parish.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators say the incident started during a party, when a fight broke out between the owner of the towing service, at 1201 W. Main St., Donnie Snoke, 41, who lives in Washington, and a person not identified by the sheriff’s office.
The unidentified man left the party and went to his home on Eugene Soileau Road, where St. Landry deputies questioned him about the fight at the party.
While they talked, they observed vehicles being driven up and down the road in front of the house.
After deputies left the house, Snoke and his 19-year-old son Casey and others allegedly surrounded the house with vehicles and four-wheeled recreational vehicles.
Then, according to deputies, they banged on the exterior of the house and threatened to set fire to the house. Investigators say the elder Snoke splintered the door frame of the house and his son shattered a window, then crawled through the window into a bedroom.
Deputies say when they returned to the house, the victim inside the house had kept the Snokes and the others at bay with a shotgun, although no shots had been fired.
The Snokes fled the scene as deputies arrived and were arrested shortly and booked into the St. Landry Jail on a charge of home invasion. They were released Monday, February 23, on bonds of $75,000 each.