By JIM BUTLER

A different approach may be needed for Jamarcus Blake.

He was booked Wednesday on two counts of felony domestic abuse battery, criminal damage, assault, false imprisonment and violation of protective order 1st offense.

Bail was set at $50,500.

This arrest is the seventh time he has been booked on a first-offense protective order violation since July 2020.

Those arrests also included an assortment of related, violence-oriented allegations.

How the calculation stays at first offense is a judicial system math question.

According to La R.S. 14, first-offense violation of a protective order is a misdemeanor. Second is a felony.