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Charles Thrash

Covington hitman began career as armed robber

In 1956, Charlie Thrash led Louisiana State Police on a thirty-mile chase, driving a stolen 1951 brown Pontiac. Racing from Bunkie, Louisiana to Alexandria, the 25-year-old crashed through police roadblocks in two parishes with patrol cars from three jurisdictions following bumper-to-bumper. The chase ended when the Pontiac T-boned a state police car blocking Highway 71

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