By JIM BUTLER

Kera Chaney ended 2025 pretty much the way he started it.

Chaney, 41, of Alexandria was booked in parish lockup December 27 on four counts of contempt, three possession counts, having a firearm with drugs, being a felon in possession of firearms, using an ATV on a public road and resisting arrest. Bail is set at $84,500.

On February 1 this year he was charged with battery 2nd degree and posted bond, then on February 12 with criminal damage and three counts of domestic abuse child present, bail set at $30,500.

Records indicate Chaney’s alleged infractions go back at least a decade.

In November 2014 he was charged with false impersonation of a police officer.

A year later he was charged with burglarizing vehicles parked on the Alexandria Mall lot.

In October 2016 he faced two counts of attempted 2nd-degree murder, being a felon with a firearm and two drug charges. A 2018 trial was eventually scheduled.

By March 2021 Chaney was back in the parish jail, charged with being a felon possessing a firearm, possessing a firearm with drugs, two possession counts and contempt.

In September 2021 he was charged with parole violations, 2nd-degree rape, home invasion and possession.

In July 2022 he was logged into Rapides as a state prisoner. 

Two years later, August 2024, Chaney was booked on felony flight, possession and traffic charges and again in November on contempt accusations.