Man Indicted In Connection With Attempted Bank Robbery

(Opelousas, LA) -- A St. Landry Parish grand jury has handed up an indictment against a man accused of attempting to rob a Chase Bank branch in Carencro in 2005. Thirty-year-old Calvin James Catalon, of Arnaudville [[ARNO-vill]], faces charges of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated burglary. Authorities say Catalon allegedly perpetrated a home invasion in the Cankton area, in which Catalon tied up a man and forced his wife into a vehicle. Carencro police have said the woman was an employee of the bank and investigators believe the home invasion was part of an attempt to force her to open the bank's vault. Authorities say the plan went awry when the assailant learned the vault could not be opened with only one person's access code. The perpetrator tied up the woman, left her in a restroom at the bank and fled. Catalon faces up to life in prison on the kidnapping charges and up to 30 years on the burglary charge.