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A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE A HOUSE FIRE THAT HAPPENED IN LAFAYETTE MONDAY EVENING. GEORGE FAUST HAS THE DETAILS.
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A HOME IN DELCAMBRE CAUGHT FIRE YESTERDAY. THE HOME IS ON DOOLEY STREET. IT IS CONSIDERED A TOTAL LOSS. FIRE INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
A JEFF DAVIS PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTY, WHO STOPPED TO ASSIST AN INDIVIDUAL WALKING ON L-A ONE-OH-TWO NORTH OF WELSH, ENDED UP IN A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION. ACCORDING TO STATE POLICE, THE PEDESTRIAN, IDENTIFIED AS FORTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD MARK BULLER OF IOWA, MANAGED TO GET HOLD OF THE DEPUTY’S TASER AND USED IT AGAINST HIM. THE DEPUTY REPORTEDLY FIRED HIS SERVICE WEAPON AS BULLER ATTEMPTED TO TAKE HIS VEHICLE. BULLER AND THE DEPUTY, SERGEANT JOSH CLEMENT, WERE EACH TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT OF INJURIES AND RELEASED, AND BULLER WAS ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE CHARGES INCLUDING ATTEMPTED FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. BULLER HAD AN ACTIVE WARRANT FOR FAILING TO REGISTER AS A SEX OFFENDER AND SIMPLE BURGLARY.
A LAFAYETTE MAN WAS ARRESTED AFTER POLICE RAIDED A HOME IN THE TWO HUNDRED BLOCK OF SAINT JAMES DRIVE FRIDAY. POLICE SEIZED ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN POUNDS OF MARIJUANA AS WELL AS NEARLY SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH, OTHER T-H-C PRODUCTS, AND A STOLEN HANDGUN. POLICE ESTIMATED THE VALUE OF THE ITEMS TO BE NEARLY ONE-POINT-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD DEVANTE DAVIS WAS ARRESTED ON MULTIPLE DRUG AND WEAPONS CHARGES AND HIS BOND WAS SET AT FOUR POINT-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS.
A BODY FOUND NEAR THE MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER IN VILLE PLATTE DECEMBER TWENTY-FIRST HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD DAJAVON (DAY juh vawn) WILSON. THE FAMILY OF WILSON TELLS KLFY TV THEY WERE TOLD ABOUT THE DISCOVERY BY VILLE PLATTE POLICE DETECTIVES ON FRIDAY. WILSON HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE DECEMBER SEVENTH AND THE FAMILY REPORTED HIM MISSING A WEEK LATER. WILSON’S GRANDFATHER, JIMMY GALLOW, ASKS THOSE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN HIS DISAPPEARANCE TO TURN THEMSELVES IN.
ALLEN PARISH LANDOWNERS WERE ON HAND AT A PUBLIC HEARING IN ALLEN PARISH TO LEARN ABOUT A PROPOSED CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT. OXY ONE-POINT-FIVE IS A CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE COMPANY THAT HAS HIRED PARAGON GEOPHYSICAL SERVICES TO PERFORM A SEISMIC SURVEY. PARAGON AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES PROVIDED DETAILS ON THE SURVEY AND LEASING INFORMATION. PARAGON HAS TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM THE LANDOWNER TO ACCESS THEIR PROPERTY.
STATE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING A THREE VEHICLE CRASH AT AROUND TWO MONDAY MORNING ON HIGHWAY ONE-NINETY BETWEEN KROTZ SPRINGS AND PORT BARRE. A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION FOUND THAT THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD BRANDON TAYLOR OF PORT BARRE WAS TRAVELING EAST IN THE WESTBOUND LANES WHEN HE STRUCK A CHEVY SILVERADO HEAD-ON AND THEN WAS HIT BY A FREIGHTLINER TRUCK. TAYLOR WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE. THE DRIVER OF THE PICKUP SUFFERED MODERATE INJURIES WHILE THE DRIVER OF THE FREIGHTLINER WAS UNINJURED.
TWO MORE WOMEN HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF GRAVE DESECRATION AT A CEMETARY IN OPELOUSAS. PREVIOUSLY, THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD QUINA CLAY OF CHURCH POINT HAD BEEN BOOKED WITH MISDEMEANOR GRAVE DESECRATION. NOW FORTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD CRYSTAL BELL EDMOND AND FORTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD ALEXIS SALLY, BOTH OF OPELOUSAS, ARE WANTED ON THE SAME CHARGE. THE THREE ARE ACCUSED OF OPENING A CASKET THAT WAS SET TO BE LOWERED INTO THE GROUND AT SERENITY MEMORIAL PARK AND TAKING PICTURES OF THE BODY.
