Sheriff’s Office played a key role as the Knights of Nemesis paraded in great weather for St. Bernard’s Carnival

Lt. Chad Silcio on the parade route as a float with Nemesis royalty approaches.	Cpl. Jeff Babin, left, and Dep. Anthony Caserta on the parade route.
The Sheriff’s Offoce new mobile command post acquired with a federal grant, and driven in the Nemesis by Capt. Bret. Bowen. led the parade.	Young parade-goers and adults wave for throws from an approaching float.
Sheriff James Pohlmann is approached by a spectator as he rides in Nemesis.	Chalmette High’s marching band approaches.

It was St. Bernard Parish’s only Carnival parade and the Knights of Nemesis had great weather for entertaining spectators in Chalmette on Saturday, Feb. 22, with Sheriff’s Office personnel also playing a key role.

Children stretched for beads and other throws and riders on the 16 floats, which included several former New Orleans Saints players, seemed to have fun.

Sheriff James Pohlmann rode in the parade, as well as other department personnel and it saw the debut of the Sheriff’s Office mobile command post recently acquired with a federal grant and driven by Capt. Bret Bowens, leading the procession.

McGruff the Crime Dog, portrayed by Greer Cuccia of the Sheriff’s Office was in the parade, along with Lt. Lisa Jackson and Sgt. Darrin Miller of the department’s D.A.R.E. program which debuted a new miniature robot car. Maj. David DiMaggio, Capt. Charles Borchers, Lt. Robert Broadhead and Nick Cuccia of the Sheriff’s Office also rode in the parade.

The Sheriff’s Office also, for the first time, posted parade location updates on its Facebook page, done by Capt. Angela Huff, aboard the command post.

Sheriff’s deputies from all divisions handled parade security along the route on Judge Perez Drive Perez Drive. The crowd was generally well behaved, with very few arrests made for disturbances, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Also, as usual, the department’s Sky Watch, which enables viewing the crowd from a lifted platform about 30 feet up to look for any disturbances, worked well. Dep. Chantel Nunez sat in the Sky Watch.