The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has used its $3 million helicopter in the search for slain 6-year-old Ahlittia North, to assess the damage of the BP oil disaster and to find a college president who lost his way in the wetlands on a bird-sighting mission. Last week, it flew three Parish Council members, two aides, the assessor, the sheriff and a pilot to a meeting in Grand Isle.
In 22 minutes Wednesday morning, the copter breezed from the helipad behind the Texas Roadhouse in Harvey to a grassy spread beside a sandwich shop where the eatery's owner nodded expectantly; a lot of helicopters buzz around Grand Isle before the town's