ROBBY JAMES ACOSTA

ROBBY JAMES ACOSTA Update officers information and/or submit photo of officer
Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 41-W: 23
Department: Iberville Parish, Louisiana, S.D.
End of Watch: June 6, 2001
Cause: PHYS
Age: 28
Years of Service: 7
Description: Deputy Acosta was on routine water patrol when he was bitten by a poisonous brown recluse spider. Deputy Acosta died six months later after he developed cancer. Autopsy report verifies that the spider that bit Deputy Acosta left poisonous venom in Deputy Acosta's blood system that led to the development of the cancer in his body, and eventually his death.
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