Derrick Perkins arrested in Baton Rouge in the Millard case

Police said on March 10, 2023 they wanted to speak to Derrick Perkins (pictured here) about the disappearance and death of Nathan Millard. (Image: Baton Rouge Police Department)

Police have arrested the man they wanted to speak to about 42-year-old Nathan Millard, who went missing and was found dead on a rolled-up carpet in Baton Rogue, Louisiana. Investigators charged Derrick Perkins, 45, with no wrongdoing in connection with Millard’s death but had also wanted him on probation violations, criminal damage to property, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and three counts of access device fraud. Cops said he was arrested without incident Monday night and jailed at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

Authorities have not specified what role they believe Perkins played in Millard’s mysterious disappearance and death.

As previously reported, Millard, a resident of Covington, Georgia, was in Baton Rouge on a brief business trip. Authorities initially said he was last seen on the night of February 22.

“Nathan was last seen on video walking around the Courtyard Marriott at 3rd Street and Florida Ave. wearing a black Carhartt shirt, jeans, brown boots and a black Columbia baseball cap,” search and recovery organization Texas EquuSearch wrote on March 1. “Nathan is known to have visited Happy’s Irish Pub on 3rd Street and Convention St. and is believed to have left the pub on foot at around 11:30pm to return to the hotel. His phone and wallet were found discarded a few blocks away, but Nathan was not sighted.”

Millard tragically turned up dead on a vacant lot on Block 2900 of the Scenic Highway early March 6. He was rolled up in a rug.

Nathan Millard, 42, was found dead early in the morning of March 6, 2023, police said. (Image: Texas EquuSearch)

“It appears he was left there,” Baton Rouge Police Captain Kevin Heinz said in a March 7 news conference. “He most likely did not die there.”