DENHAM SPRINGS — A search for a man accused of violating two protective orders sent Livingston Parish deputies to a Denham Springs property last week, but what happened there is now under internal review.

The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office says they were looking for 30-year-old Austin Yoches, wanted for violating two protective orders, after multiple tips placed him at a property off Burgess Road.

But the family living there, including Felicia McDonald and her sister-in-law, Marci Guidry, says deputies went too far.

“They came and banged on my door,” McDonald said.

She says deputies told her they were acting on an anonymous tip. Yoches is her husband’s first cousin.

“He said, ‘We’re here looking for Austin.’ And I said, ‘He’s not here.’ He said, ‘Well, we got an anonymous tip that

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