Ferriday man booked on charges of attempted second-degree murder

Published 12:06 am Tuesday, July 26, 2016

VIDALIA — A Ferriday man has been booked into the Concordia Parish jail on charges of attempted second-degree murder and false imprisonment, but officials provided few details about the circumstances leading up to the arrest Monday.

Stanley Vernon Schcikel, 44, 218 Bailey Circle, Ferriday, was booked at the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office at 10:35 p.m. Sunday on charges of false imprisonment, attempted second-degree murder and a probation hold.

CPSO Spokesman Vernon Stevens declined to release more information about the matter, saying investigators were still in the process of interviewing witnesses and obtaining warrants Monday afternoon.

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More information should be available today, he said, calling the arrest a “kind of tricky case.”

Schickel was detained without bond Monday.

He was previously booked on a probation and parole violation in June, and was charged with aggravated arson in August 2013.

In that instance, Schickel allegedly burned down a Vidalia house a few hours after neighbors complained to police they had received threats.

A five-hour manhunt followed, with police following tips that led them from Vidalia to a Ridgecrest residence and ultimately to the streets of Ferriday, where he was captured in a foot chase.

Schickel was also wanted on several warrants out of La Paz County in Arizona at the time of the arson arrest.